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09/10/2025-15/10/2025

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[1] GraphHopper Routing Engine | © karussell, map data by OpenStreetMap Contributors.

Community

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 other programs, which was prepared for the mapping sessions that IVIDES DATA held in September and October 2025. This initiative is described in her OpenStreetMap user diary.

OSM research

OSM in action

  • Forcen found that the newly released first-person shooter game Battlefield 6 includes OpenStreetMap data. OSM was listed in the game’s credits page.

Software

  • Jatmiko Herjati has developed GeoConverter, a GDAL-powered web app for transforming GIS vector data between formats. It performs 100% client-side processing, so your files never leave your browser.
  • Organic Maps has been added to taginfo projects.
  • The OSM Perfect Intersection Editor (OSMPIE), introduced by Mikhail Kuzin, is a new closed-source web tool for precisely editing roads and intersections in right-hand drive countries using semantic models, featuring a change viewer, GeoJSON export, and suggestions for improved tagging structures.
  • Due to excessive server load from automated queries via Azure and AWS infrastructure, the Overpass API is temporarily blocking parts of these cloud providers. This measure is expected to last around eight weeks while a fairer resource distribution is implemented.

Programming

  • aselnigu posted, in her OSM user diary, about the creation of notes with MapLibre control and the creation of a control for layers (LayerTree control) using Leaflet, also in MapLibre.
  • Subins2000 has developed a Grand Theft Auto: Vice City-themed map style on MapLibre GL JS. Based on this map style, there’s a static map of Kochi, a city in India that has several similarities with Vice City in the game, and an interactive world map based on OpenStreetMap data.

Releases

  • CoMaps has released version 2025-10-09, with improvements to routing for bikes and cars, as well as better search and improved map styles.
  • [1] Karussell reported that version 11.0 of the GraphHopper routing engine has been released, it now features an improved routing algorithm for avoiding private roads.

Did you know that …

  • ftrebien, a Brazilian mapper, has maintained for over 10 years a page on the OSM wiki to organise a reference on tag translation schemes for Brazilian Portuguese? The scheme takes into account discussions he had with mappers from different regions of the country and served as the basis for the tagging schemas of the iD and JOSM editors.

Other “geo” things

  • Miguel Garcia Alvarez publishes the interesting blog ‘A Cartographer’s Tale’, which this week discussed Islarios (collections of maps of islands) published in the 15th and 16th centuries.
  • Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have developed a method to make standard GNSS accurate to within centimetres, even in dense urban areas, using freely available correction data and smart algorithms, without relying on expensive services.
  • Sozialhelden e.V. is looking for someone to fill a part-time position in their a11yscore and Wheelmap projects. The role involves contributing to a11yscore, a data-driven tool assessing accessibility across regions worldwide, and supporting Wheelmap, an interactive map of wheelchair-accessible locations. Candidates with experience or interest in inclusion and accessibility, as well as knowledge of open data, geo-data, GIS systems, or OpenStreetMap, are encouraged to apply.

Upcoming Events

CountryWhereVenueWhatWhen
Open Transport Community Conference (ÖBB) 2025-10-17 – 2025-10-18
flagWienÖBB Open Innovation FactoryOpen Transport Community Conference 2025-10-17 – 2025-10-18
OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting 2025-10-17
flagWaitematāUniversity of AucklandMapathon Mini Party 2025-10-17
flagPotsdam11-LINE PotsdamPotsdamer Mappertreffen 2025-10-17
flagOrxLàO : Libre à Orx 2025-10-18
flagBengaluruRR NagarOSM Bengaluru Mapping Party 2025-10-18
flagSalt Lake CitySugar House MonumentSugar House / 21st South Reconstruction Survey 2025-10-18
flagMumbaiVersova Metro StationOSM Mumbai MapWalk #4 2025-10-18
flagKarlsruheEnglerstraße 11, 76131 KarlsruheMappingaktionen 2025-10-19
Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] 2025-10-21
flagEvanstonNorthwestern University Geography Club MeetingNorthwestern University Map-A-Thon 2025-10-21
flagLyonTubàRéunion du groupe local de Lyon 2025-10-21
flagBonnDotty’s193. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn 2025-10-21
flagCity of EdinburghTeuchters West EndOSM Edinburgh pub meetup 2025-10-21
flagOnlineLüneburger Mappertreffen 2025-10-21
flagRedmondStudio A MicrosoftIntune Core Services GIVE: Missing Maps Mapathon 2025-10-22
flagFabrique des possiblesRéunion OpenStreetMap 2025-10-22
flagRéunion du groupe local de Vienne 2025-10-22
flagHannoverKuriosumOSM-Stammtisch Hannover 2025-10-22
flagWienSchlupfwinkel (Kleine Neugasse 10, 1040 Wien)76. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch 2025-10-22
flagŽilinaDescartes Systems Group (Slovakia)Missing Maps mapathon Žilina #19 2025-10-23
flagToursL’Etape 84Rencontre communauté OSM Tours (Fr) 2025-10-24
flagBolognaLiceo Copernico di BolognaOpenStreetMap al Linux Day di Bologna 2025-10-25
Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne – CartONG [fr] 2025-10-27
flagStadtgebiet BremenOnline und im Hackerspace BremenBremer Mappertreffen 2025-10-27
flagUniversity of Nigeria ,Enugu Campus,Enugu StateState of the Map Nigeria 2025 Conference Enugu 2025-10-28 – 2025-10-30
flagKielMango’s, KielKieler Mapper*innentreffen 2025-10-28
flagVogteiOnline BigBlueButtonOSM Radinfra-Mapathon #4 2025-10-28
flagDüsseldorfOnline bei https://meet.jit.si/OSM-DUS-2025Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) 2025-10-29
flagSiliguriPanitanki More, Siliguri7th OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party 2025-10-30
UN Mappers Mappy Hour 2025-10-31
flagChâteau-ferme de CourrièreOSM-stand @ International Day Les Scouts 2025-11-01
flagBraunschweigStratum0Braunschweiger Mappertreffen im Stratum0 Hackerspace 2025-11-01
flagनई दिल्लीJitsi Meet (online)OSM India – Monthly Online Mapathon 2025-11-02

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This weeklyOSM was produced by MatthiasMatthias, Raquel Dezidério Souto, Strubbl, Andrew Davidson, barefootstache, mcliquid.
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