22/01/2026-28/01/2026 Mapping campaigns AE35 reported that 22 volunteers participated in MapRoulette challenges across Denmark’s five regions, resulting in a total of 71,251 brand-new roads and paths added to Denmark. Jonny McCullagh announced that a mapathon will take place in Belfast on Saturday 21 February from …

15/01/2026-21/01/2026 About us Hello dear friends of the Italian language. This is probably our last issue in Italian. Last week we didn’t publish issue #808 because we only had one proofreader. This week we are publishing even though we only have one proofreader. Our quality standards stipulate that at least two …

08/01/2026-14/01/2026 Community Eiim reported on the ongoing progress of mapping buildings in Delaware County, Ohio. In an OpenCage blog, members of the CoMaps team talked about the app and how they relate to the OSM community. Rphyrin has used OpenStreetMap data to map the extent and impact of Jakarta’s torrential …

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 …