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• Browse our world map
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• Browse the map feature documentation
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Image of the week

OpenStreetMap was on show at the 36th Chaos Communication Congress (a large hacker conference) in Leipzig in December. Mappers explained the project to some of the 17000 visitors while Show Me The Way was displayed on a laptop

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News
2019
3 Aug2019-08-03–2019-08-04	Most pages on this wiki load faster following a redesign of the language bar. Please report any problems on the language bar's talk page.
12 Jun2019-06-12–2019-06-13	The events calendar has been streamlined for easier editing. See Template:Calendar for updated instructions.
11 Apr2019-04-11–2019-04-12	The OSM Foundation is now an affiliate member of the Open Source Initiative.
23 Mar2019-03-23–2019-03-24	OSM wins the 2018 Free Software Foundation award, adding another trophy to our collection.
23 Jan2019-01-23–2019-01-24	Wiki pages containing outdated but historically relevant information can be marked with the templates {{Historic artifact start}} and {{Historic artifact end}}.
10 Jan2019-01-10–2019-01-11	Data Working Group announces that the Organised Editing Guidelines have been officially put online. (More context on the OSMF blog.)
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Event Calendar  – See also Past Events

Current events Consider adding and subscribing to events at OSMCal 18–22 Feb2020-02-18–2020-02-23 FOSS4G-it/OSMit 2020, Torino, Piemonte, Italy 23 Feb2020-02-23–2020-02-24 Atelier découverte, Rennes, Bretagne, France 24 Feb2020-02-24–2020-02-25 Takasago Open Datathon, Takasago, Japan 26 Feb2019-02-26–2019-02-27 Missing Maps Mapathon Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland 26 Feb2020-02-26–2020-02-27 Stammtisch Bodensee, Singen (Hohentwiel), Germany 26 Feb2020-02-26–2020-02-27 OSM-Sprechstunde, Hannover, Germany 26 Feb2020-02-26–2020-02-27 Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch, Düsseldorf, Germany 27 Feb2020-02-27–2020-02-28 Lübecker Mappertreffen, Lübeck, Germany 27 Feb2020-02-27–2020-02-28 OpenStreetMap Foundation public board meeting, world 27 Feb2020-02-27–2020-02-28 Únorový brněnský Missing maps mapathon na Geografickém ústavu, Brno, Czech Republic 29 Feb2020-02-29–2020-03-01 Contrib'atelier OpenStreetMap, Toulouse, France 2 Mar2020-03-02–2020-03-03 Budapest gathering, Budapest, Hungary 2 Mar2020-03-02–2020-03-03 New Haven Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, United States 3 Mar2020-03-03–2020-03-04 Missing Maps London, London, United Kingdom 4 Mar2020-03-04–2020-03-05 OSM-Sprechstunde, Hannover, Germany 4 Mar2020-03-04–2020-03-05 Stuttgarter Stammtisch, Stuttgart, Germany 4 Mar2020-03-04–2020-03-05 Kvartální pivo, Praha/Brno/Ostrava, Czech Republic 4 Mar2020-03-04–2020-03-05 Atelier ouvert OpenStreetMap, Arlon, Belgium 6 Mar2020-03-06–2020-03-07 Mappertreffen, Dortmund, Germany 6 Mar2020-03-06–2020-03-07 State of the Map Baltics, Riga, Latvia 7 Mar2020-03-07–2020-03-08 GPSで絵を描いてみようじゃあ～りませんか, Amagasaki, Japan 7 Mar2020-03-07–2020-03-08 MapaTime! Baguio @ SLU, Baguio, Benguet, Philippines 7 Mar2020-03-07–2020-03-08 OpenDataDay 2020, Worldwide 9 Mar2020-03-09–2020-03-10 Réunion mensuelle, Rennes, Bretagne, France 9 Mar2020-03-09–2020-03-10 Rencontre mensuelle, Grenoble, France 9 Mar2020-03-09–2020-03-10 OSM x Wikidata #14, MozSpace, Taipei, Taiwan 9 Mar2020-03-09–2020-03-10 Toronto Mappy Hour, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 10 Mar2020-03-10–2020-03-11 Hamburger Mappertreffen, Hamburg, Germany 10 Mar2020-03-10–2020-03-11 Rencontre mensuelle, Lyon, France 11 Mar2020-03-11–2020-03-12 115. OSM Meetup Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 11 Mar2020-03-11–2020-03-12 OSM-Sprechstunde, Hannover, Germany 11–14 Mar2020-03-11–2020-03-15 FOSSGIS-Konferenz, Freiburg, Germany 12 Mar2020-03-12–2020-03-13 Rencontre mensuelle, Nantes, France 12 Mar2020-03-12–2020-03-13 141. Berlin-Brandenburg Stammtisch, Berlin, Germany 12 Mar2020-03-12–2020-03-13 Stammtisch Ulmer Alb, Ulmer Alb, Germany 14–15 Mar2020-03-14–2020-03-16 Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany 17 Mar2020-03-17–2020-03-18 Nottingham pub meetup, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom 17 Mar2020-03-17–2020-03-18 Lüneburger Mappertreffen, Lüneburg, Germany 17 Mar2020-03-17–2020-03-18 127. Bonner OSM-Stammtisch, Bonn, Germany 18 Mar2020-03-18–2020-03-19 OSM-Sprechstunde, Hannover, Germany 19 Mar2020-03-19–2020-03-20 Stammtisch Hannover, Hannover, Germany 19 Mar2020-03-19–2020-03-20 Münchner Treffen, Munich, Germany 19 Mar2020-03-19–2020-03-20 Civic Hack & Map Night, San José, California, United States 22 Mar2020-03-22–2020-03-23 Mapping Downtown Flushing: Put the Map in Your Hands, Flushing, New York, United States 25 Mar2020-03-25–2020-03-26 OSM-Sprechstunde, Hannover, Germany 26 Mar2020-03-26–2020-03-27 Lübecker Mappertreffen, Lübeck, Germany 27 Mar2020-03-27–2020-03-28 Düsseldorfer OSM-Stammtisch, Düsseldorf, Germany 28 Mar2020-03-28–2020-03-29 Incontro mensile, Biella, Italy 28 Mar2020-03-28–2020-03-29 Contrib'atelier OpenStreetMap, Toulouse, France   Future big events 27 Apr – 1 May2020-04-27–2020-05-02 EuYoutH OSM Meeting, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania 27–29 May2020-05-27–2020-05-30 Pista ng Mapa 2020 [1], Cebu City, Central Visayas, Philippines 24–28 Jun2020-06-24–2020-06-29 EuYoutH OSM Meeting, A Guarda, Spain 1–2 Jul2020-07-01–2020-07-03 HOT Summit, Cape Town, South Africa 3–5 Jul2020-07-03–2020-07-06 State of the Map 2020, Cape Town, South Africa