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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 ^±

Conference organised by the Mexico OpenStreetMap community in the campus of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México in Toluca.

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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 ±

4–6 Mar FOSSGIS Hacking Event Nr. 5, Essen, Germany 5 Mar FI/Humanitarian OSM Mapathon in Helsinki, Finland 5 Mar Nottingham/Mapping Meetup Ipstones/Consall Forge, Staffordshire, England 5 Mar オープンストリートマップ関西 大集結, Muko, Japan 5 Mar Anál. y Viz. de datos OSM, OpenDataDay, La Paz,Bolivia 5 Mar Día de los Datos Libres, Santiago, Chile 7 Mar Mappy Hour, Toronto, Canada 7 Mar Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs, Grenoble, France 7 Mar Présentation OSM, Rouen, France 8 Mar Landshut Stammtisch, Landshut, Germany 8 Mar International Women's Day Mapathon, Bellingham, Washington, United States 8 Mar Rencontre mensuelle mappeurs, Lyon, France 9 Mar Humanitarian Mapathon University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, US 10 Mar 93. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch, Berlin, Germany 10 Mar Stammtisch München, München, Germany 11 Mar Stammtisch Zürich 12 Mar Mapping party - Bogota: Lourdes, Bogota, Colombia 12 Mar 京都世界遺産マッピングパーティ：第１２回 特別編 延暦寺, Kyoto, Japan 14 Mar Cordaid Resource Mapping Workshop, Coron, Palawan, Philippines 14 Mar Mappertreffen, Passau, Germany 15 Mar Mappertreffen Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany 15 Mar Bonner Stammtisch, Bonn,Germany 15 Mar Schemotechnica 02, Moscow, Russia 15 Mar Edinburgh,Scotland 16 Mar Stammtisch, Karlsruhe, Germany 16 Mar Missing Maps Mapathon, Brussels, Belgium 19–20 Mar Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2016, Chemnitz, Germany 20 Mar 第2回秋葉原マッピングパーティー, Akihabara, Japan 22 Mar Nottingham, Nottingham, England 23 Mar Missing Maps Mapathon, Antwerp, Belgium 23 Mar Rencontres mensuelles, Rennes, France 28 Mar Bremer Mappertreffen, Bremen, Germany 29 Mar Stammtisch Ulmer Alb, Urspring, Germany 30 Mar Stammtisch, Düsseldorf, Germany 1 Apr Stammtisch, Essen, Germany event 2 Apr 2016 SOSM Annual General Meeting, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland 2 Apr Mapping Party following AGM, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland 5–9 Apr FOSS4G Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina 20–22 May State of the Map France 2016, Clermont-Ferrand, France 21 May State of the Map CZ+SK 2016, Brno, Czech Republic 4–6 Jul FOSSGIS 2016 Salzburg, Austria 23–25 Jul State of The Map US 2016, Seattle, United States 6 Aug State of The Map Japan 2016, Tokio, Japan 24–26 Aug FOSS4G 2016, Bonn, Germany 23–26 Sep State of the Map 2016, Brussels, Belgium