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 …

23/10/2025-29/10/2025 Mapping campaigns With the development of the Bliesgau region as a ‘Quality Region for Hiking in Germany’, the hiking trail network has been completely revamped in recent years. Due to the removal and replacement of signs, there is a lot of data in OSM that is no longer up to date. Together with …

16/10/2025-22/10/2025 About us This week we celebrate seven consecutive years of weeklyOSM in Portuguese! That’s right! Users Elizabete and NunoMASAzevedo began this weekly adventure of translating and reviewing the articles that make up the weekly edition of this weekly newspaper with weeklyOSM No. 431. …

09/10/2025-15/10/2025 Community DressyPear4 showed ► how to map solar panels using the plugins Gridify and Scripting for JOSM. Education Raquel Dezidério Souto has published A Guide to the Training Session 2 – Mapping areas in OpenStreetMap with JOSM editor and the Training Session 3 – Validation with JOSM editor and …

02/10/2025-08/10/2025 About us Raquel Dezidério Souto, our editor for Brazilian Portuguese, has published the presentation she prepared for State of the Map 2025. The presentation covered a bit of weeklyOSM history and the results of a statistical analysis of the articles published in the past 10 years. Raquel would …

25/09/2025-01/10/2025 Mapping Voting is open until Monday, 13 October on these proposals: beauty=* to indicate a hair salon’s specialisation in women, men, or mixed clientele. information=*, a top-level tag defined as infrastructure intended to convey information. Mapping campaigns Microsoft’s Open Maps team is …

18/09/2025-24/09/2025 About us The OpenStreetMap (OSM) ecosystem is very vast, making it complicated to investigate user preferences for OSM-related software or topics. A Keynote will be presented by Raquel Dezidério Souto at the State of the Map 2025, in English, showing the development of a study on the publication …

11/09/2025-17/09/2025 Mapping Comments are requested on these proposals: role=request_stop to mark stops as request stops along route relations. beauty=* to indicate a hair salon’s specialisation in women, men, or mixed clientele. votive=* and votive_offering=* to more accurately record votive sites and the type of …