London/2024 events
Welcome to the list of OpenStreetMap related events in London for 2024
These events are free and open to all. We normally have a mixture of old OpenStreetMap hands and new people coming along to find out more. The events might include mapping, or might include "Q&A" presentations, but mostly we're just sitting around (in a pub?) having a friendly chat about little things like mapping the world and releasing it for free! We hope you'll join us! Everyone and anyone is welcome.
Upcoming Events
4th June - Monkey Puzzle
On Tuesday 4th June we'll have a social OpenStreetMap pub meet-up at The Monkey Puzzle pub from 7:00pm. Whether you're a mapper, map user, or just curious, come join us for map chat and beers!
The Monkey Puzzle is here on the map, between Paddington & Edgware Road on the circle line, and Lancaster Gate on the central line. It's a little way away from the tube stations in a quite an obscure residential location, so you may want to find it using a map! It's a small pub, but if you think you may have trouble recognising anyone, turn up at 7:30pm when the group will be more assembled, and look out for maps or OpenStreetMap hi-viz vests. Also take Harry's number: O7979815O13
The pub serves food and most of us will probably be eating there.
Mark yourself as "attending" on osmcal.org if you fancy it. Not everyone bothers signing up. We normally expect about 5/10 people at the pub.
10th June - LRUG talk about OpenStreetMap
On Monday 10th June Andy Allan will be giving a talk about maintaining the OpenStreetMap website at the London Ruby User Group, hosted in Hoxton (map). LRUG is a monthly ruby development themed meet-up evening with presentations and pub afterwards. There'll be some other OSMers in attendance. If you're interested in the technical side of OpenStreetMap, it's not to be missed! Sign-up is required and spaces limited.
All the details and sign-up on LRUG.org
August - 20th Birthday Celebration
In August some time we should do something big for OpenStreetMap 20th Anniversary Birthday party. Nothing planned so far. Suggestions welcome!
Humanitarian mapping events are happening fairly regularly. This page is not going to be the best place to stay up-to-date with those. Follow Missing Maps London on eventbrite. For a long time they were having two events per month, but maybe not since the pandemic.
Future events
We'll use this wiki page to announce events, as well as 
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Announcements may come at short notice!
There’s lots of other events in London e.g. tech meet-up groups, for which OpenStreetMap is relevant. Please use the wiki to pro-actively coordinate the setting up of an “OpenStreetMap presence” at these events… or just go along (Other OSMers may or may not be there)
We’ve got a list of London event venues for future events of a non-pub format. Please add to that if you have ideas or if your organisation would like to host or sponsor an event!
Past events
| Date (2024) | Area | Venue | listing site(s) |
What happened? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22nd Feb | Kings Cross | Meta offices | [1] | "Pedestrian Infrastructure Mapathon" hosted by Meta. Said Turksever's write up on LinkedIn, Dan Karran's blog |
| 6th Mar | Kings Cross | Parcel Yard | [2] | Social pub meet-up |
This series of events follows on from London/2023 events