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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 initiative combining OpenStreetMap, Wikimedia Commons, and student-led citizen science to document lichens as bio-indicators of environmental change in rural areas.
- Andy Townsend noted the increasing complexity in OSM’s pedestrian crossing tagging. The maps for Garmin devices at map.atownsend.org.uk have been updated to display more detailed pedestrian crossing information.
- Edward Hasbrouck shared some travel lessons from his journey between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, using a map based on OpenStreetMap data.
Events
- The State of the Map Africa 2025 has been postponed to 26 to 28 June 2026, due to security issues arising from a conflict that has broken out in Tanzania after recent elections.
- Werner Vogels, Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, delivered a presentation titled ‘Unmapped: No Data, No AI’ at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, July 2025. He highlighted the critical role of OpenStreetMap and communities, playing an essential role with map data being essential to provide services.
- After the 12 January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, no map existed (neither OSM nor Google). The OSM community mobilised rapidly using imagery to provide map data for emergency teams to reach fundamental infrastructures.
- Drones are game-changing in disasters, offering high quality data when needed, even under clouds to produce map data rapidly.
- Local communities such as the Makoko floating community in Lagos (300,000) can produce their own aerial imagery and detailed map.
- The Geospatial Dev room is returning to FOSDEM 2026 for a full day. The deadline for talks is 1 December.
- Andrés Gómez Casanova spoke
, as the OpenStreetMap Latam representative, at the latest IDE Chile International Conference , held on 4 November in Santiago, Chile. - HeiGIT is hosting a mapathon on Wednesday 19 November at 6:30 pm, at Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg, on the 5th floor of IWR, as part of Geography Awareness Week. During the event participants will contribute to a Médecins Sans Frontières mapping task focused on improving healthcare access in Indonesia.
, as the OpenStreetMap Latam representative, at the latest Maps
- Pays des Nestes (France) has produced an interactive map of food producers in the region. But we cannot see the required OpenStreetMap attribution in the base map used.
- Sophie Clairet has demonstrated ► how to visualise geoJSON datasets from adresse.data.gouv.fr using uMap.
an interactive map of food producers in the region. But we cannot see the required OpenStreetMap attribution in the base map used.
OSM in action
- Dose Map is a global mapping project for amateur dosimetry tracks, representing the ionising radiation dose absorbed by objects. Users can upload their recordings, which are then visualised on an OpenStreetMap-based global map.
project for amateur dosimetry tracks, representing the ionising radiation dose absorbed by objects. Users can upload their recordings, which are then visualised on an OpenStreetMap-based global map.Open Data
- Piet Brömmel has updated the structure and design of his OpenStreetMap General Statistics website that tracks statistics about OSM contributions. The update makes adding new tables and plots much easier. It can now be done using SQL on the pre-processed data. New datasets about notes and comments are also now available.
Software
- lwn.net has reported in detail on the background to the development of CoMaps from Organic Maps and ultimately MapsWithMe.
- DressyPear4 has explained ► how to quickly add areas in JOSM by using the colour contrast in aerial imagery.
- Mercator’s Maze has published a browser game, Spy Hunt, based on OSM data. Hunt for a spy that is hiding in the city of London!
►Releases
- GeoDesk has released GOL Tool 2.2, which enables downloads of OSM data for any region, without size restrictions.
- jonnymccullagh has released several updates to an OSM tile server and a map front end that default to displaying place names in the Irish language.
- Eugene Kizevich announced the release of OsmAnd version 5.2 for iOS, which has introduced several notable updates. The new version features a Marine Map Style designed for nautical navigation, Custom Button Binding that allows external controllers to map any Quick Action, and improved map visuals with text outlines across all widgets along with a precision grid for aligning map buttons.
- The new 2025.11.07-2 release of CoMaps is now available and you can read about the highlights of this release.
Did you know that …
- … you can convert waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular GPS receivers such as Garmin and Magellan, as well as mapping programs, using GPSBabel?
- … there are over 700 Mastodon accounts mapped in OpenStreetMap under the
contact:mastodontag?
Other “geo” things
- Geomob Podcast #309 was released on 26 October, presenting an interview with James Cheshire, professor at University College London (UCL) and author of The Library of Lost Maps. The conversation explored the evolution of cartography, the significance of thematic maps, and the historical context of mapping practices.
- ‘No more invented islands – cartography rethought’ is the title of a podcast broadcast by BR.de (Bayerischer Rundfunk, part of German public broadcasting) in its Radiowissen series about Tobias Mayer, the astronomer and geographer who solved the longitude problem of seafarers. The text of the podcast is available as a PDF.
- PastVu is an online platform dedicated to collecting, geo-tagging, and contextualising historical photographs. Using an OpenStreetMap-based interactive map, the site allows users to explore vintage images from around the world, view their locations, and engage in community discussions about each photo.
- Brughmans, Pažout, de Soto, and Bjerregaard Vahlstrup have developed Itiner-e, an open dataset repository of roads across the entire Roman Empire. This project, maintained collaboratively by a community of scholars, offers tools for viewing, querying, and downloading the roads data.
- Munich’s Department of Culture, in partnership with the Citizens’ Foundation of the City of Oldenburg, has launched ► a web-based map showcasing the locations, biographies, and photographs of individuals who were victims of Nazi persecution.
by BR.de (Bayerischer Rundfunk, part of German public broadcasting) in its Radiowissen series about Upcoming Events
| Country | Where | Venue | What | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Salt Lake City | Woodbine Food Hall | OSM Utah Monthly Map Night  | 2025-11-12 |
 | Dundee | Dundee Railway Station | Pre-SotM-EU Mapping Nature Walk | 2025-11-13 |
 | Berlin | Sophieneck | 209. OSM-Stammtisch Berlin-Brandenburg | 2025-11-13 |
 | Madrid | Online | Mappy Hour OSM España | 2025-11-13 |
| Bochum | Das Labor, Alleestraße 50, Bochum | OSM-Treffen in Bochum | 2025-11-13 |
| Online | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | 2025-11-13 | |
| Dundee | Abertay University, Dundee, UK | State of the Map Europe 2025 | 2025-11-14 – 2025-11-15 |
| OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting | 2025-11-14 | |||
 | LaNum – Bidart Izarbel | Rencontre Mapadour | 2025-11-14 | |
 | Kannur University SAT Campus, Payyannur, Kerala | State of the Map Kerala 2025 | 2025-11-15 – 2025-11-16 | |
| Meerut | Suraj Kund/Gandhi Nagar, Meerut | 25th OSM Delhi MapWalk (Meerut) | 2025-11-16 |
 | Waitematā | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand | FOSS4G International Conference 2025 – Auckland | 2025-11-17 – 2025-11-21 |
| Internationale GeoWeek – Online Mapathon von ÄRZTE OHNE GRENZEN (AT/CH/DE) | 2025-11-17 | |||
 | Bologna | Room VIII, Viale del Risorgimento 4, Bologna | Unibo Mapathon OpenStreetMap 2025 | 2025-11-18 |
 | Budapest | NNG Kft. | OSM térképest 2025-11-18 | 2025-11-18 |
| Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | 2025-11-18 | |||
| Lyon | Tubà | Réunion du groupe local de Lyon | 2025-11-18 |
| Bonn | Dotty’s | 194. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | 2025-11-18 |
| City of Edinburgh | Penny Black (formerly the Black Bull) | OSM Edinburgh pub meetup | 2025-11-18 |
| Online | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | 2025-11-18 | |
| Newport News | Christopher Newport University | Christopher Newport University Mapathon | 2025-11-19 |
| Heidelberg | INF 205, 69120 Heidelberg, 5th floor of IWR | Mapathon for Geography Awareness Week at HeiGIT | 2025-11-19 |
| Réunion du groupe local de Vienne | 2025-11-19 | ||
| Karlsruhe | Chiang Mai | Stammtisch Karlsruhe | 2025-11-19 |
| Madrid | Online | Mappy Hour OSM España | 2025-11-20 |
| UN Mappers Mappy Hour for #OSMGeoweek | 2025-11-21 | |||
| Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne – CartONG [fr] | 2025-11-24 | |||
| Berlin | Online | OSM-Verkehrswende #70 | 2025-11-25 |
 | Toronto | Workhaus Dundas | | 2025-11-26 |
| Fabrique des possibles | Réunion OpenStreetMap | 2025-11-26 | |
| Hannover | Kuriosum | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | 2025-11-26 |
| Mittelweser-Mappertreffen | 2025-11-26 | |||
| Düsseldorf | Online bei https://meet.jit.si/OSM-DUS-2025 | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | 2025-11-26 |
| Freiburg im Breisgau | CCC FR | OSM-Treffen Freiburg Br. | 2025-11-26 |
| [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting | 2025-11-27 | |||
| Trento | Trento | FOSS4G-IT – OSMit 2025 | 2025-11-27 – 2025-11-28 |
 | Amsterdam | TomTom HQ | Maptime Amsterdam: Map & Meet | 2025-11-27 |
| Madrid | Online | Mappy Hour OSM España | 2025-11-27 |
 | Dar es-Salaam | State of the Map Africa 2025 | 2025-11-28 – 2025-11-30 |
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