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 …

04/09/2025-10/09/2025 Breaking news The OpenStreetMap Foundation held its 19th Annual General Meeting on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at 16:00 UTC. Out of 1,836 eligible voters, 683 participated in the election. Roland Olbricht, Brazil Singh, and Daniela Waltersdorfer were elected to the Foundation’s Board. OSMF …

28/08/2025-03/09/2025 Mapping The wiki page for man_made=ceremonial_gate, a new tag that was approved on 27 August, has been created. Mapping campaigns HeiGIT reported on a group mapping initiative in Cartagena, Chile, aimed at strengthening disaster risk reduction efforts. Using the Sketch Map Tool, a participatory …

21/08/2025-27/08/2025 Mapping campaigns The Wikimedians of Japan User Group took part in the event ‘Promoting the Appeal of Your Local Area with the Power of Digital Technology – Nagahama Castle Town Heritage’ on 22 March this year. During the programme participants toured the area surrounding the Nagahama Hachiman …

14/08/2025-20/08/2025 About us miurahr presented a talk titled ‘Behind the Scenes of weeklyOSM: How We Share OSM News Every Week’ at COSCUP 2025, Taiwan’s largest open-source conference. The conference featured a dedicated track on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata with two talks: talk 1 and talk 2 . Mapping campaigns Penegal …

07/08/2025-13/08/2025 Mapping Mateusz Konieczny has proposed an automated edit to migrate maxspeed:advised= to maxspeed:advisory=, as the two tags have the same intended meaning. Mapping campaigns Stefan Kaufmann reported ► on a hydrant mapping initiative carried out in collaboration between the Temporärhaus and the …

31/07/2025-06/08/2025 Mapping Penegal has asked about the meaning, for highways, of local max weight signs (do they apply to actual weight or maximum permissible weight), and the corresponding usage of maxweight/maxweightrating tags. You are invited to explain, for your country, the meaning of local max weight signs, …