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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 | |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 2024 | |
| 20 Dec | Sovereign Tech Fund invests €384k in OpenStreetMap. |
| 19 Dec | Meta has donated €178k to the OpenStreetMap Foundation to support community and core infrastructure. |
| 17 Dec | All services are back live after an outage – map away. :) |
| 19 Oct | If you are an OpenStreetMap Foundation member, you can attend the online 18th Annual General Meeting of the Foundation, where the results of the OSM Foundation's board election will be announced. |
| 12 Oct | Voting is open for the 2024 board election. Read about voting eligibility, instructions and common questions here. |
| 9 Oct | Learn about how OSM's infrastructure has been progressing with an update from OSM's Senior Site Reliability Engineer. |
| 27 Sep | You can now read the answers and the manifestos of the 2024 OSM Foundation's board election candidates. Discuss the answers on your local channels or on community.osm.org. |
| 9 Aug | OpenStreetMap's 20th birthday. See where birthday parties and meetings were held. |
| 9 Aug | Read OSM's founder Steve Coast's thoughts on the 20th birthday of OpenStreetMap. |
| 18 Jun | OpenStreetMap Foundation board member Sarah Hoffman participated in the United Nations' UN-Maps conference, hear more about how the UN uses OSM. |
| 7 Jun | See a progress update on vector tiles from the Engineering Working Group to learn more about this exciting improvement to openstreetmap.org. |
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| See also | Recently approved tags · OpenStreetMap Blog · weeklyOSM · OpenStreetMap in the media |
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