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, …

24/07/2025-30/07/2025 Mapping Requests for comments have been made on these proposals: library:users=* to indicate which groups of people a library is intended for. wikimedia_commons=* to extend the existing tag to also allow Wikimedia PageIDs. Voting on a proposal, to make announcing proposal RFCs and voting on the …

17/07/2025-23/07/2025 About us Raquel Dezidério Souto, our editor for Brazilian Portuguese, Artur Fernandes, Gabrielle Lima, Myllene Lopes, Paloma Caetano and Tatiana Vianna have compiled ► statistics on how often weeklyOSM has mentioned each of the 102 OSM-related software products selected for analysis. The …

10/07/2025-16/07/2025 Mapping The comprehensive proposal for mapping road markings was approved with 21 votes for, 5 votes against, and 1 abstention. Community HazelCyril asked whether OpenStreetMap maintains records of the last time a user posted a diary entry or created map notes. KhubsuratInsaan questioned if …

03/07/2025-09/07/2025 Community Koreller has tooted before-and-after maps of the area around the Association Saint-Benoît Labre in Vertou, France, following some detailed micromapping work. Mapping water slides for OSM can be hard work. But as Marc wrote, maybe a little fun, too. Events At the 2025 AGIT Conference for …