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23/01/2025-29/01/2025
railmap.gl [1] |, a Web map that shows railway operators for the North America. © MapLibre, © Three.js | map data © OpenStreetMap Contributors.
Mapping
The following two proposals are up for voting until Friday 14 February:
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Mapping campaigns
- OSM France has organised a post-disaster mapping campaign (we reported earlier) to record the state of buildings in the area affected by Tropical Cyclone Chido, which struck in December 2024, reaching Mamoudzou’s coast, on Mayotte Island (Overseas France). Explanatory videos are available in the mapping instructions on the appropriate tags to be used, according to the level of visible damage to the building and the roof material. CNES/Airbus images are being used in this project.
- Frederik Ramm, from Geofabrik, is looking
for mappers to help with a potential contract for mapping public transport infrastructure in OpenStreetMap. The task involves transferring data from on-site station surveys into OSM using JOSM while considering aerial imagery and existing data. Work is expected to start around Easter and could last several months. Geofabrik is open to hiring full-time, part-time, or freelance contributors, either remotely or from their office in Karlsruhe. Interested individuals should reach out before they decide on bidding for the project. - Negreheb shared the progress being made on capturing Salzburg’s streets with 360° imagery for Mapillary and Panoramax. Challenges with route planning tools led to using OsmAnd for real-time GPX tracking and flexibility. They highlighted improvements using CLI tools for image uploads, ensuring efficiency and quality. Inspired by Detroit’s street coverage success, they aim to map all streets in Salzburg to improve OpenStreetMap and accessibility.
for mappers to help with a potential contract for mapping public transport infrastructure in OpenStreetMap. The task involves transferring data from on-site station surveys into OSM using JOSM while considering aerial imagery and existing data. Work is expected to start around Easter and could last several months. Geofabrik is open to hiring full-time, part-time, or freelance contributors, either remotely or from their office in Karlsruhe. Interested individuals should reach out before they decide on bidding for the project.Community
- Dzertanoj published a method for verification of the results of a transformation of data from NAD83 to WGS84.
- While participating in Global Game Jam 2025, cyanohydr and their team developed ‘Bubble World Wanderer’, an OpenStreetMap-themed walking simulator web game.
- JPinAR highlighted various aspects of cycling mapping in the US, stressing that several categories beyond urban and suburban commuting remain underrepresented. These include cyclo-cross, cross-country, BMX, pump tracks, and gravel riding.
- Tex2002ans explained how to add fire hydrants and benches using the StreetComplete application.
- Unique Mappers Network Nigeria, an NGO based in Port Harcourt has updated its website, where you can access projects, events, and more. A newsletter is also available.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
- The OpenStreetMap Foundation has announced its 2025 public board meeting dates, starting on Thursday 30 January, with monthly public meetings hosted online. These sessions allow OSMF members to observe and participate during comment sections, providing transparency on board activities.
Local chapter news
- The Swiss OpenStreetMap Association (SOSM) announced that Nine AG is a new colocation sponsor. As of December 2024, Nine AG is hosting one of SOSM’s servers in Zurich, following its relocation from Winterthur. This sponsorship helps SOSM maintain essential OpenStreetMap services, while their second server remains supported by Adfinis. SOSM expressed gratitude to both sponsors for their continued support.
Events
- You are invited to share your ideas and session proposals for the 2025 State of the Map US, to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, 19 to 21 June. This year’s theme, Charting the Course, will celebrate OSM in mobility and look toward the next decade of OpenStreetMap US. The proposal deadline has been extended until Friday 14 February.
OSM research
- HeiGIT has developed a pipeline to evaluate the completeness of OSM building data by comparing it to the Overture Maps database.
- Pascal Neis explained ► how crime mapping research is being used to analyse spatial patterns in the occurrence of ATM explosion cases in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Maps
- After 16 years, the osm-wms.de map service will go offline on Monday 31 March. Originally launched in 2009 to provide OpenStreetMap data in OGC WMS format, the service became less essential as GIS software evolved to support tile maps directly. The team at HeiGIT will now focus on making OSM data more accessible for humanitarian and climate action efforts. Users looking for alternatives can find suitable WMS and raster tile providers in the OpenStreetMap Wiki.
- The dynamic maps published on the portal visitandorra.com, maintained by the public company Andorra Turisme, are made using OpenStreetMap and show information on activities, accommodation (hotels), and promotions. This is useful for those who are going to watch the competition in Andorra and you can even create a travel plan.
OSM in action
- Ronnie Aldrin Silva has created a Voronoi map of European capitals, showing each capital’s area of influence based on geographical proximity.
Software
- [1] railmapgl is working on an app focusing on the operators of railways, called railmap.gl. It uses MapLibre and Three.js. The map currently only covers North America.
- Protomaps tooted about some updates, including a revamped website with hosted API and FAQ sections, Maputnik editor support for PMTiles in MapLibre, and a new CLI release (v1.24.1) enhancing PMTiles archive management. Additionally, a blog post outlined the design goals for the basemaps, discussing the foundation of an effective map design.
- A new fork of the streets.gl website showcases OpenStreetMap data in 3D directly in the browser, now hosted with updated data by Alexandar Gyurov (GitHub). The site is accessible at streets-gl.onrender.com, improving upon the original project’s features, including rendering enhancements discussed in this pull request.
Releases
- OpenCage is pleased to announce that its spreadsheet geocoding service has now entered public beta.
- OSM2World version 0.4.0, an application for converting OpenStreetMap data into three-dimensional models, has been released.
- Every Door 5.4 introduced a number of improvements, including better conflict processing on way uploads, over-zoom for Esri tiles, fixes for editing at extreme latitudes, and enhanced handling of fax and mobile fields. New features include cadastre imagery layers, updated presets, and support for Hebrew and Tamil.
- Osmdiff version 0.5.0-beta.1 has been released, bringing improvements to testing, documentation, and configuration management.
Other “geo” things
- The e-book Research and Education in Geography: challenges of a changing world , written in Brazilian Portuguese, is the result ► of the V Scientific Conference of the PPGG-UFRJ, held in 2024, at the UFRJ Science and Culture Forum ►, in Rio de Janeiro. The book is a sample of the research carried out by the programme, with reports from its postgraduate students and their advisors on various themes and areas of interest.
- The proceedings of X SLBCH ►, the 10th Luso-Brazilian Symposium on Historical Cartography, have been published by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
- Google Maps has changed its pricing model, which could increase the costs to developers using their APIs. Higher fees may push businesses and app developers to seek alternatives, potentially benefiting OpenStreetMap, as a free and open-source mapping solution. Companies looking to reduce expenses may migrate to other solutions including MapLibre or Leaflet, further strengthening the OSM ecosystem.
- Dongdong Tian and others have published version 0.14.0 of PyGMT, updating the library for processing geospatial data and making publication-quality maps and figures. It provides a Pythonic interface to the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), a command-line program widely used across the earth and planetary sciences and beyond. You can access the tutorials from the EGU22 PyGMT short course.
- Yandex talked ► about the architecture of its geocoder, using deep learning to quickly adapt the existing Russian language version for other languages in different countries.
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►Upcoming Events
| Where | What | Online | When | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake City | OSM Utah Monthly Map Night  | 2025-02-05 |  | |
| Salzburg | OSM Treffen Salzburg | 2025-02-04 |  | |
| San Jose | South Bay Map Night | ✓ | 2025-02-05 | |
| Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | 2025-02-04 | |||
| London | London pub meet-up | 2025-02-04 |  | |
| Stuttgart | Stuttgarter OpenStreetMap-Treffen | 2025-02-05 |  | |
| iD Community Chat | 2025-02-05 | |||
| Montrouge | Réunion des contributeurs de Montrouge et du Sud de Paris | 2025-02-06 |  | |
| Guadalajara | A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations between Eric Theise and Fernando Feria | 2025-02-07 |  | |
| OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting | 2025-02-07 | |||
| København | OSMmapperCPH | 2025-02-09 |  | |
| 中正區 | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #73 | 2025-02-10 |  | |
| Meeting preparing the creation of the Catalan Association of the OSM | 2025-02-11 | |||
| München | Münchner OSM-Treffen | 2025-02-12 | | |
| Bochum | Bochumer OSM-Treffen | 2025-02-13 | | |
| Moers | I Love Free Software Day Community-Hackday vom 14. – 16. Februar 2025 im JuNo, Moers Repelen | 2025-02-14 – 2025-02-16 | | |
| Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe Hack Weekend | 2025-02-15 – 2025-02-16 | | |
| 東区 | State of the Map Japan 2024 | 2025-02-14 |  | |
| Panoramax monthly international meeting | 2025-02-17 |
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