01/01/2026-07/01/2026 Community [1] The OpenStreetMap community of northern Portugal met in Braga on Saturday 3 January at the Municipal Market of Braga. In an informal and open atmosphere, participants from Braga and the surrounding area came together to map, learn, and share knowledge about the territory. Between …

25/12/2025-31/12/2025 Community Carlos Felipe Castilo has developed a web dashboard to predict population figures in a region using OpenStreetMap data, such as building footprints, levels, and housing density. Evgeny Arbatov noted the importance of local knowledge from runners and walkers who discover unmapped streets. …

18/12/2025-24/12/2025 Community [1] rtnf has developed WD-NearbyItem, an OpenStreetMap-based web app to display the Wikidata items around a location. bmaczero has setup a MapRoulette task to fix multi-pitch tennis courts in the US. Malle Yeno shared his 2025 OSM mapping activities in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, …

11/12/2025-17/12/2025 Mapping campaigns A collaborative mapping campaign is being coordinated by the Virtual Institute for Sustainable Development, IVIDES DATA, and the Social Project Management Centre of the Federal University of São Francisco Valley. The goal is to map the 18 productive rural villages in the …

04/12/2025-10/12/2025 Mapping campaigns confusedbuffalo is proposing to extend their existing automated edit of phone numbers in the USA and UK to include Canada, removing extra punctuation and adding the country code. Mappers are invited to discuss this on the OSM Community forum and to get in touch if they think such …

27/11/2025-03/12/2025 Mapping campaigns Mateusz Konieczny is proposing a mechanical edit to fix conflicting paved=* and surface=* tags. confusedbuffalo is proposing to extend the existing automated edit of phone numbers to include the United Kingdom, removing extra punctuation and adding the country code. Mappers are …

20/11/2025-26/11/2025 Community Adrian Shobrooke shared several insights into the validation process within the context of OSM humanitarian mapping activities. Giopera outlined the process behind the creation of several OSM-related logos for the Italian community, which incorporated visual elements derived from OSM …

13/11/2025-19/11/2025 Mapping campaigns confusedbuffalo is proposing an automated edit of phone numbers in the US to remove extra punctuation and to add the country code. This will standardise numbers and make it easier to identify genuinely invalid phone numbers. Contributors are invited to discuss in the forum thread …

06/11/2025-12/11/2025 Community foxandpotatoes has drafted a document describing several types of banks and ditches that are not yet represented in the current OSM tagging system. The Wikimedistas de Jujuy from northern Argentina were recognised in HOT’s MapEdu 2025 contest for their LichenWikiEcology project, an …

30/10/2025-05/11/2025 Community The 30 Day Map Challenge 2025 has officially begun, featuring 30 distinct mapping themes, one for each day of November. Participants are invited to create maps inspired by the daily themes and share their work on social media using the hashtag #30DayMapChallenge. For the first day’s …