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Welcome to OpenStreetMap, the project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. We started it because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. More about OpenStreetMap | How to contribute | Where to get help

Use OpenStreetMap

Using OpenStreetMap

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• Browse our world map
• Check the ready-to-use products for your mobile device, your desktop computer or the web services
• ...more on using OpenStreetMap

Contribute free map data

Beginners' Guide

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• Browse the map feature documentation
• Browse the Mapping projects
• ...more on contributing map data

Software Development

Develop and use the Platform

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• Use OpenStreetMap for your software
• Contribute to the OpenStreetMap software

Image of the week ^±

Stickers of OpenStreetMap Taiwan logo for Participants of the Kaohsiung Meetup, which occurred in the Southern port city in Taiwan.

Other featured images

News ±
30 Oct	New road style. Major changes to improve legibility and consistency of roads in the cartography of the Standard map style on openstreetmap.org.)
24 Jun	Fundraising target reached. Thank you! (you can still donate)
6 Jun	Launching Fundraising drive 2015
25 Apr	Humanitarian OpenStreetMappers respond to the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
16 Feb	Routing feature was enabled on main website openstreetmap.org, based on Open Source Routing Machine, GraphHopper and MapQuest Routing API
6 Oct	WeeklyOSM was relaunched: a weekly news collection with everything about OSM, based on German Wochennotiz. WeeklyOSM is available there in English, Spanish, Romanian, Japanese and Türkish
18 Sep	OSM2World takes first place in Thomas-Krenn open source awards
14 Nov	GeoGO Presentation during NFB Texas Convention in Austin, Texas USA to support CapMac's GeoGO-OSM Accessibility Project
older news...	OpenStreetMap in the media

Platform Status ±

Up and running

Event Calendar ±

7 Jan Wiener Stammtisch entfällt/cancelled 9 Jan OSM Kaohsiung Meetup, Living and education center of labor , Kaohsiung , Taiwan 11 Jan Stammtisch Zürich 11 Jan Niederbayerntreffen in Passau, Germany 12 Jan OSM-Stammtisch München, Germany 12 Jan OSM Stammtisch Viersen, Viersen, Germany 12 Jan London pub meet-up, UK 13 Jan Stammtisch Stuttgart, Germany - moved from Jan 6th 14 Jan 91. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch, Germany 14 Jan Stammtisch Dresden, Germany 14 Jan Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs, Grenoble, France 15 Jan Serata OpenStreetMap A Pergine Valsugana Italia 16 Jan Mapping Party palazzi dell'antico distretto minerario a Pergine Valsugana Italia 17 Jan Missing Maps Mapathon , Seattle, US 18 Jan OpenStreetMap Meetup Budapest, Budapest Hungary 19 Jan Mappertreffen Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany 19 Jan Nottingham, Nottingham, England 19 Jan Bonner Stammtisch, Bonn 20 Jan Stammtisch, Karlsruhe, Germany 20 Jan Missing Maps Mapaton_Guajira, Bogota y Pereira, Colombia 21 Jan Augsburger Stammtisch, Augsburg, Germany 21 Jan Stammtisch Freiberg, Germany 21 Jan Stammtisch Obersteiermark, Leoben, Austria 23 Jan Missing Maps Mapathon, Gent, Belgium 23 Jan OSM Mapathon by #MapPHL, Manila, Philippines 25 Jan Bremer Mappertreffen, Bremen, Germany 25 Jan Stammtisch Graz, Austria 25 Jan Rencontres mensuelles, Rennes, France 26 Jan UNIX-Stammtisch zum Thema Erstellung von OSM-Karten, Chemnitz, Germany 27 Jan Stammtisch Düsseldorf, Germany 28 Jan Stammtisch Ulmer Alb, Urspring, Germany 28 Jan Stammtisch Chemnitz, Sachsen, Germany 30–31 Jan FOSDEM Conference, Brussels, Belgium 3 Feb Stammtisch Stuttgart, Germany 4 Feb Stammtisch Dresden, Germany 6–7 Feb Hack Weekend, Berlin, Germany 8 Feb Mappertreffen Passau, Germany 9 Feb Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs, Lyon, France 10–12 Feb Bogo City OpenStreetMap Workshop by French Red Cross, Bogo City, Cebu, Philippines 11 Feb 54. Wiener Stammtisch 12 Feb 92. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch, Germany 24–26 Aug FOSS4G 2016, Bonn, Germany 23–26 Sep State of the Map 2016, Brussels, Belgium