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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.
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| 2025 | |
| 11 Jul | openstreetmap-website security fix; developer action 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. |
| 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 |
| 12th July | OSM Africa July 2025 Mapathon | Gaborone, Botswana |
| 13th July | OpenStreetMap Haftasonu Buluşmaları | Kadıköy, Turkey |
| 13th July | OSMmapperCPH | Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark |
| 13th July | 18th OpenStreetMap Delhi Mapping Party | Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| 14th–20th July | FOSS4G Europe 2025 | Mostar, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 14th July | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #78 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 15th July | OSM Utah Monthly Map Night | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| 15th July | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | |
| 15th July | OSM Edinburgh Social Meet-up | City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| 15th July | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 16th July | Mapping Party Semanal LATAM | Weekly LATAM Mapping Party | Bogota, Bogota, Capital District, Colombia |
| 16th July | Stammtisch Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 16th July | [Online] OSM Greece - Διαδικτυακή συνάντηση της ελληνικής κοινότητας | |
| 17th July | Mappy Hour OSM España | Galicia, Spain |
| 17th July | Missing Maps Mapathon in Heidelberg MSF | Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 20th July | OSM India monthly mapping party (online) | Dadri, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| 22nd July | Kieler Mapper*innentreffen | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
| 22nd July | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 22nd July | OSM-Verkehrswende #69 | Berlin, Germany |
| 24th July | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 24th July | 75. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch | Vienna, Austria |
| 25th July | OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting | |
| 26th July | 5th OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party | Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India |
| 27th July | 6th OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party | Siliguri, West Bengal, India |
| 27th July | 19th OpenStreetMap Delhi Mapping Party | Dadri, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| 28th July | Bremer Mappertreffen | Bremen, Bremen, Germany |
| 30th July | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 31st July | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 31st July | Eastern Europe Mappy Hour | |
| 1st August | UN Mappers #ValidationFriday Mappy Hour | |
| 4th August | Maptime Amsterdam: Map & Meet | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands |
| 5th August | OSM Treffen Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 5th August | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 5th August | East Midlands Pub Meet-up & OSM 21st Birthday Party | Derby, England, United Kingdom |
| 5th August | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | |
| 6th August | iD Community Chat | |
| 9th August | Stuttgarter OSM-Geburtstagtreffen | Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 10th August | COSCUP 2025 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata開放內容議程軌 | Gongguan, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 10th August | OSMmapperCPH | Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark |
| 11th August | 178. OSM-Stammtisch Zürich | Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 11th August | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #79 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 12th August | Hamburger Mappertreffen | Hamburg, Germany |
| 13th August | Münchner OSM-Treffen | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| 13th August | Missing Maps - DRK & MSF Online Mapathon | |
| 14th August | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | Ohio, United States |
| 19th August | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | |
| 19th August | 191. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 19th August | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 19th August | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 20th–22nd August | Mostra de projetos de mapeamento - Workshop MPCS 2025 | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 23rd–24th August | OSM auf der Maker Faire Hannover 2025 | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 24th August | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 26th August | OSM Radinfra-Mapathon #3 | Vogtei, Thuringia, Germany |
| 27th August | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 28th August | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 2nd September | OSM Treffen Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 2nd September | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | |
| 4th–6th September | SotM LatAm 2025 | Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
| 9th September | Hamburger Mappertreffen | Hamburg, Germany |
| 11th September | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | Ohio, United States |
| 11th September | Münchner OSM-Treffen | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| 15th September | Ardenne belge - Social | Habay-la-Neuve, Luxembourg, Belgium |
| 15th September | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #80 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 15th September | Ardenne belge - Meeting | Habay-la-Neuve, Luxembourg, Belgium |
| 16th September | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | |
| 16th September | 192. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 16th September | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 17th–18th September | Jornadas de SIG Libre / SOTM España | Girona, Catalonia, Spain |
| 17th September | 18. Österreichischer OSM-Stammtisch (online) | Stainach-Pürgg, Styria, Austria |
| 25th September | FOSS4G Belgium | Schaerbeek - Schaarbeek, Belgium |
| 25th September | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 25th September | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 26th September | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 3rd–5th October | State of the Map 2025 | Quezon City, Philippines |
| 7th–10th October | State of the Map Nigeria 2025 Conference Enugu | Enugu State, Nigeria |
| 7th October | Vortrag - Wie nutze ich OpenStreetMap - BWS Lehen-Vorstadt, Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 7th October | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | |
| 9th October | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | Ohio, United States |
| 13th October | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #81 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 14th October | Hamburger Mappertreffen | Hamburg, Germany |
| 17th–18th October | Open Transport Community Conference | Vienna, Austria |
| 17th–18th October | Open Transport Community Conference (ÖBB) | Vienna, Austria |
| 21st October | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | |
| 21st October | 193. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 21st October | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 22nd October | 76. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch | Vienna, Austria |
| 25th October | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 28th October | OSM Radinfra-Mapathon #4 | Vogtei, Thuringia, Germany |
| 29th October | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 4th November | OSM Treffen Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 4th November | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | |
| 7th–9th November | itWikiCon | Catania, Sicily, Italy |
| 8th–9th November | Karlsruhe Hack Weekend November 2025 | Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 10th November | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #82 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 11th November | Hamburger Mappertreffen | Hamburg, Germany |
| 13th November | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | Ohio, United States |
| 14th–15th November | State of the Map Europe | Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| 18th November | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | |
| 18th November | 194. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 18th November | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 25th November | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 26th November | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 28th–30th November | State of the Map Africa 2025 | Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania |
| 2nd December | OSM Treffen Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 2nd December | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | |
| 8th December | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #83 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 9th December | Hamburger Mappertreffen | Hamburg, Germany |
| 11th December | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | Ohio, United States |
| 16th December | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] | |
| 16th December | 195. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 16th December | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 18th December | 19. Österreichischer OSM-Stammtisch (online) | Stainach-Pürgg, Styria, Austria |
| 18th December | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 26th December | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 8th January | OpenStreetMap Midwest Meetup | Ohio, United States |
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