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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

- 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

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

- Use OpenStreetMap for your software
- Contribute to the OpenStreetMap software
| 2025 | |
| 5 Oct | Maintenance: The OpenStreetMap.org website and our mapping API will be read-only for server maintenance on the 5 October 2025 between 9:00 and 12:00 (UTC/GMT). Further details will be posted on community.osm.org and Mastodon. |
| 24 Sep | Meet Pablo Brasero Moreno, the OSMF's new Core Software Engineer! |
| 20 Sep | Voting for the OpenStreetMap Awards is open now and closes Sept. 30! There are seven categories and the winners will be announced at State of the Map 2025 in Manila. |
| 6 Sep | OSM Foundation board election: Voting is open until 13 September 2025 at 1600 UTC. |
| 2 Sep | Read about the OSM Foundation's participation in the United Nations' Open Source Week, attended by Minh Nguyễn and Sarah Hoffman. |
| 16 Aug | The Call for posters for the State of the Map 2025 conference is open! Submit yours by September 15. |
| 1 Aug | Apply to be the OpenStreetMap Core Software Engineer |
| 22 Jul | Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org |
| 20 Jul | The Call for Venues for the 2026 State of the Map conference is now open! Can your community host this great event? Bid submissions are due August 31. |
| 16 Jul | The State of the Map 2025 conference programme was published. |
| 14 Jul | Have a bold, brilliant idea that could improve the OpenStreetMap ecosystem? Then we’ve got good news for you: the OpenStreetMap Foundation is thrilled to launch the 2025 edition of our Engineering Microgrants program! The deadline for submissions was extended to July 31. |
| 11 Jul | There was a fix to openstreetmap-website security, if you are a developer using this, some action may be required. |
| 1 Jul | Nominations for OpenStreetMap Awards 2025 are open until 23 July 2025. |
| 18 Jun | The call for State of the Map 2026 venues is open until August 31. |
| 15 Jun | Nominate yourself until July 5 to be an OSM Foundation board candidate. Or submit questions to OSM Foundation board candidates (until July 12). |
| 9 Jun | State of the Map 2025 early bird tickets (for in-person or just online participation) are now available. |
| 29 May | Help test a fix for this wiki’s Unicode character encoding issues. |
| 28 May | Additional users have been granted administrator rights. |
| 30 Apr | The TemplateStyles extension is now installed. You can define a full CSS stylesheet for any template or module. |
| 28 Apr | Meet OSMF's new Core Software Development Facilitator! |
| 26 Apr | The wiki has been upgraded to MediaWiki v1.43. You can enable Dark Mode via the Appearance sidebar. Please provide feedback about incompatible pages using the link in the sidebar. |
| 17 Apr | Several users have been nominated to become administrators. Please share your feedback and vote on these proposals. |
| 16 Apr | You can apply for a travel grant to join the State of the Map 2025 conference, either in person or remotely. The call for applications will be open until 16 May 2025, 12:00 UTC. |
| 5 Apr | Notice to OSM Foundation members: There was a change in membership handling regarding auto-renewals. |
| 3 Apr | OSMF Board member Dani Walersdorfer shared her thoughts about attending the State of the Map Latin America 2024 conference |
| 10 Mar | Manila, Philippines will host the State of the Map 2025 from 3 to 5 October! Read more about the event here! |
| 7 Feb | Eight new companies joined the OSM Corporate Membership Program in 2024! |
| 7 Jan | Want to work on OpenStreetMap? Apply to be the OSM Core Software Development Facilitator! Applications will be accepted until January 21. |
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| See also | Recently approved tags · OpenStreetMap Blog · weeklyOSM · OpenStreetMap in the media |
| 30th October | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 30th October | 7th OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party | Siliguri, West Bengal, India |
| 30th October | Oficina de mapeamento com OpenStreetMap - feições de mineração e toponímia [ONLINE] | |
| 30th October | Mappy Hour OSM España | Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain |
| 30th October | OSM/GIS-Meetup Halle (Saale) | Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany |
| 31st October | UN Mappers Mappy Hour | |
| 31st October | OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting | |
| 1st November | OSM-stand @ International Day Les Scouts | Courrière, Namur, Belgium |
| 1st November | Mapping al Cimitero del Piratello | Piratello, Imola, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| 1st November | Braunschweiger Mappertreffen im Stratum0 Hackerspace | Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 2nd November | OSM India - Monthly Online Mapathon | New Delhi, India |
| 3rd November | Atelier de novembre 2025 du groupe local de Grenoble | Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France |
| 4th November | Mapathon - Monthly Missing Maps w/ EWB Norway | Oslo, Norway |
| 4th November | OSM Treffen Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 4th November | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | |
| 4th November | East Midlands pub meet-up | Derby, England, United Kingdom |
| 5th November | iD Community Chat | |
| 5th November | Stuttgarter OpenStreetMap-Treffen | Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 7th–9th November | itWikiCon | Catania, Sicily, Italy |
| 7th November | UN Mappers #ValidationFriday Mappy Hour | |
| 8th–9th November | Karlsruhe Hack Weekend November 2025 | Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 8th November | Social Mapping Saturday: Long Park | Western Australia, Australia |
| 8th November | Maker Faire Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 8th November | Mapping NOI Techpark in OpenStreetMap | Bolzano - Bozen, Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy |
| 9th November | OSMmapperCPH | Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark |
| 10th November | Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne - CartONG [fr] | |
| 10th November | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #82 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 11th November | 181. OSM-Stammtisch Zürich | Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 11th November | Hamburger Mappertreffen | Hamburg, Germany |
| 12th November | Münchner OSM-Treffen | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| 13th November | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | Ohio, United States |
| 13th November | OSM-Treffen in Bochum | Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 14th–15th November | State of the Map Europe 2025 | Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| 17th–21st November | FOSS4G International Conference 2025 - Auckland | Waitematā, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 17th November | Internationale GeoWeek - Online Mapathon von ÄRZTE OHNE GRENZEN (AT/CH/DE) | |
| 18th November | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | |
| 18th November | Réunion du groupe local de Lyon | Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France |
| 18th November | 194. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 18th November | OSM Edinburgh pub meetup | City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| 18th November | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 19th November | Stammtisch Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 21st November | UN Mappers Mappy Hour for #OSMGeoweek | |
| 24th November | Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne - CartONG [fr] | |
| 25th November | OSM-Verkehrswende #70 | Berlin, Germany |
| 26th November | Réunion OpenStreetMap | Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, Grand Est, France |
| 26th November | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 26th November | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 26th November | OSM-Treffen Freiburg Br. | Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 27th November | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 27th–28th November | FOSS4G-IT - OSMit 2025 | Trento, Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy |
| 27th November | Maptime Amsterdam: Map & Meet | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands |
| 28th–30th November | State of the Map Africa 2025 | Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania |
| 2nd December | Mapathon - Monthly Missing Maps w/ EWB Norway | Oslo, Norway |
| 2nd December | OSM Treffen Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 2nd December | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | |
| 2nd December | East Midlands pub meet-up | Derby, England, United Kingdom |
| 5th December | UN Mappers #ValidationFriday Mappy Hour | |
| 5th December | SotM CZ+SK 2025 | Olomouc, Central Moravia, Czechia |
| 6th–7th December | PSL XXL | Paris, France |
| 6th December | Braunschweiger Mappertreffen im Stratum0 Hackerspace | Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 7th December | OSM India - Monthly Online Mapathon | New Delhi, India |
| 8th December | Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne - CartONG [fr] | |
| 8th December | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #83 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 9th December | Hamburger Mappertreffen | Hamburg, Germany |
| 11th December | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | Ohio, United States |
| 11th December | Münchner OSM-Treffen | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| 13th December | GeoCamp - State of the Map España 2025 | Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain |
| 13th December | OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP-Mercator museum | Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium |
| 14th December | OSMmapperCPH | Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark |
| 16th December | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | |
| 16th December | Réunion du groupe local de Lyon | Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France |
| 16th December | 195. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 16th December | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 17th December | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 18th December | 19. Österreichischer OSM-Stammtisch (online) | Stainach-Pürgg, Styria, Austria |
| 19th December | UN Mappers Mappy Hour | |
| 20th December | OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP-Mercator museum | Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium |
| 22nd December | Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne - CartONG [fr] | |
| 26th December | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 27th December | OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP-Mercator museum | Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium |
| 3rd January | OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP-Mercator museum | Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium |
| 4th January | OSM India - Monthly Online Mapathon | New Delhi, India |
| 8th January | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | Ohio, United States |
| 20th January | East Midlands pub meet-up | Derby, England, United Kingdom |
| 30th–31st January | Mapping USA 2026 | |
| 1st February | OSM India - Monthly Online Mapathon | New Delhi, India |
| 1st March | OSM India - Monthly Online Mapathon | New Delhi, India |
| 24th March | Rencontre OpenStreetMap et Territoires | Plouzané, Brittany, France |
| 5th April | OSM India - Monthly Online Mapathon | New Delhi, India |
| 30th April–3rd May | FOSSGIS-OSM-Communitytreffen im Linuxhotel | Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 3rd May | OSM India - Monthly Online Mapathon | New Delhi, India |
| 7th June | OSM India - Monthly Online Mapathon | New Delhi, India |