These are featured images, which have been identified as the best examples of OpenStreetMap mapping, or as useful illustrations of the OpenStreetMap project.
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Week 1 (31 Dec. – 6 Jan.)
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Week 2 (7–13 Jan.)
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Frame from the video "Year of edits 2012". This year's video features yellow and green effects for the redaction bot processing, and license changeover.
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Week 3 (14–20 Jan.)
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OpenStreetMap wedding decorations! At the wedding of User:Vlish he featured this poster showing where he and his wife were born, where they met, and where they married.
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Week 4 (21–27 Jan.)
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Taginfo shows what tags are used in the OSM database.
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Week 5 (28 Jan. – 3 Feb.)
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French mapping company GéoBretagne use OpenStreetMap and are working with high schools to contribute data to the project. Here we see teachers and students mapping the exact coordinates of Lauzach wind turbines and their access roads.
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Week 6 (4–10 Feb.)
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Week 7 (11–17 Feb.)
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Life Long Learning Mapping Project : Şeyma, Kader, Neslihan,(teachers: Manfred, Miray) Simge, Özge, Our project aims to tackle the issue of gender-stereotyping. Students from Karacabey, Turkey, learning how to use a tracking device (Garmin) to improve OSM in Turkey.
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Week 8 (18–24 Feb.)
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Week 9 (25 Feb. – 3 Mar.)
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A stack of prints at the Karlsruhe Hack Weekend in February 2013, where 18 mappers from all over Europe spent two days at the Geofabrik office, working together on OpenStreetMap projects.
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Week 10 (4–10 Mar.)
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Map showing distance from parks in Glasgow, using openstreetmap data and GRASS/QGIS network analysis. Dark red means further away from a park.
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Week 11 (11–17 Mar.)
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Week 12 (18–24 Mar.)
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Week 13 (25–31 Mar.)
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This curious map of the world, shows the result of dividing the OpenStreetMap dataset into quarters until each of these vector tiles is less than 32MB in size. An experiment by Eric Fischer (details)
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Week 14 (1–7 Apr.)
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Week 15 (8–14 Apr.)
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Magyarkert ("HungarianGarden") is a leisure park in Hungary, shaped like the country at a 1:1000 size ratio. It includes main rivers, lakes and shapes of hills. The park's main theme is environment protection, educational programs, sport, etc, and of course it's on OpenStreetMap.
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Week 16 (15–21 Apr.)
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Le Monde, one of the largest French newspapers, relaunched their online paid edition with interactive French maps powered by OpenStreetMap. Read more on the MapBox blog
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Week 17 (22–28 Apr.)
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Week 18 (29 Apr. – 5 May)
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Week 19 (6–12 May)
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"iD" is a new web-based OpenStreetMap editor which is coming out of testing into prime-time on the OpenStreetMap homepage this week. read more on the blog
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Week 20 (13–19 May)
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Week 21 (20–26 May)
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Canoe Mapping in the mangroves. La Boquilla, Cartagena, Colombia. In a diary entry by Humberto Yances he describes his participatory mapping project involving the local community, fishermen and ecotourism associations. Follow-up workshops resulted in a map, and ongoing work on "Social Innovation for Mangrove Conservation"
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Week 22 (27 May – 2 Jun.)
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Week 23 (3–9 Jun.)
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Comenius Mapping Party in Romania. Persons from left to right: Dario (Portugal), Pia (Slovenia), Yaren (Turkey), Mateja (Slovenia), Hilal (Turkey), Nils (Germany).
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Week 24 (10–16 Jun.)
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Week 25 (17–23 Jun.)
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Severin Menard is conducting a workshop on QGIS as a part of HOT's "Engaging the Youth to Map The Northern Corridor" in Limonade, Haiti
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Week 26 (24–30 Jun.)
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UK construction firms have access to very detailed Ordnance Survey map products, but when it comes to displaying a map on a public notice, the people building the new tram in Nottingham found it easier to use OpenStreetMap. Detailed, up-to-date, and open licensed.
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Week 27 (1–7 Jul.)
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Week 28 (8–14 Jul.)
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A modified 'standard' view of OpenStreetMap to reveal coverage worldwide on low zoom levels. Those (0–8) have essentially been created from scaling down tiles (slightly modified and without labels) of zoom level 9 and adding the labels afterwards. This experiment by Frederik Ramm can be viewed as a zoomable map (comparison via “+” on the right); more details of the technical approach.
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Week 29 (15–21 Jul.)
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Week 30 (22–28 Jul.)
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Week 31 (29 Jul. – 4 Aug.)
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Week 32 (5–11 Aug.)
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Week 33 (12–18 Aug.)
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Week 34 (19–25 Aug.)
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Mappers, users and developers from Baltic States, Russia, Finland and other countries gathered at the SOTM Baltics 2013 OSM local conference in Tartu, Estonia
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Week 35 (26 Aug. – 1 Sep.)
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While out mapping the world OSM mappers come across some curious things. Shown here: a wooden trough fed by water from the rain gutter of a hut. Possibly it is a watering place for animals.
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Week 36 (2–8 Sep.)
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Week 37 (9–15 Sep.)
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State Of The Map 2013, the annual OpenStreetMap conference, was held in Birmingham, England, from 6th to 8th September 2013.
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Week 38 (16–22 Sep.)
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Week 39 (23–29 Sep.)
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The TIGER Battlegrid map shows colourful grid squares (orange for urban, green for countryside) for parts of the U.S. where more TIGER fixup work is needed by comparing with the newer TIGER 2012 data. Read more on this blog post
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Week 40 (30 Sep. – 6 Oct.)
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The new "Humanitarian" style (also available on osm.org) offers a new window on OpenStreetMap data. This new style focuses on the needs of the HOT work, for example water and sanitation, road quality, fire hydrants, electricity network, street lights, or social facilities.
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Week 41 (7–13 Oct.)
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A leather iPad cover with an OpenStreetMap design on show at OSMit conference last weekend. The creators dressmap.it have more pictures on their site
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Week 42 (14–20 Oct.)
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Week 43 (21–27 Oct.)
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Week 44 (28 Oct. – 3 Nov.)
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A mapping party in Low Tatras (Slovakia) took place on 12th and 13th October 2013 whose main objective was to add missing hiking and bicycle trails to the OSM data. The video shows a time-lapse animation of the participants' GPS traces.
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Week 45 (4–10 Nov.)
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Week 46 (11–17 Nov.)
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Typhoon Haiyan editing activity visualised. Pascal Neis analysed changesets in the Philippines and Vietnam. In his blog post he reports that we had contributions from 245 different people by Sunday evening, all helping to improve our map data which is being used by aid organisations and crisis responders. OSM contributors, thank you and keep up the good work!
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Week 47 (18–24 Nov.)
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Every Line Ever in San Francisco! “OpenStreetMap: Every Line Ever, Every Point Ever” is an artistic experiment in drawing every version of every point or line feature that ever existed in the OSM database. Read more info and explore the slippy map of San Francisco or London.
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Week 48 (25 Nov. – 1 Dec.)
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Large OSM-based poster maps of Tacloban, Guiuan and Ormoc printed and delivered by International Organization on Migration in DSWD Operations Center in Tacloban Airport. The maps will be used to coordinate the relief and rescue efforts for the victims/survivors of Typhoon Haiyan.
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Week 49 (2–8 Dec.)
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Linking UK Food Hygiene Rating System data (licensed under the Open Government License) to OSM highways. This is a potentially rich set of address and other data for OSM. Records are located to postcode centroid but contain full addresses. This image shows an intermediate step in assigning the postcodes to an individual named road. Work done at London Hack Weekend last weekend.
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Week 50 (9–15 Dec.)
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A colourful artistic map of Lille (France) with its characteristic star-shaped citadel, made using OpenStreetMap data and QGIS as described in the tutorial here.
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Week 51 (16–22 Dec.)
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Week 52 (23–29 Dec.)
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