List of featured images/2018

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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See also: List of featured images/2017 and List of featured images/2019

2018

Week 1 (1–7 Jan.)		English Detail from a watercolour map of Seville, created by Andrew McGuire as a Christmas present for his wife. Hand-painted upon an OpenStreetMap base-map via Mapzen.
Week 2 (8–14 Jan2025-01-08–)		English As part of the InAWARE project by HOT in Indonesia, 500 framed OpenStreetMap maps were delivered to village offices around Jakarta, to help officials identify infrastructure in their area. Previously many such offices used rough hand-drawn maps.
Week 3 (15–21 Jan2025-01-15–)		English Car parks take up a lot of space within our cities. What The Street visualises this and other uses of city space for cars, trains, and cycles using OpenStreetMap data.
Week 4 (22–28 Jan2025-01-22–)		English Christian Quest's latest creation is a 3D printed OpenStreetMap logo shaped cookie-cutter!
Week 5 (29 Jan – 4 Feb2025-01-29–)		English No image was featured this week.
Week 6 (5–11 Feb2025-02-05–)		English A map of lighthouses all over the world mapped on OpenStreetMap, made by Arun Ganesh (planemad). See also the interactive map on MapBox.
Week 7 (12–18 Feb2025-02-12–)		English Sharing OpenStreetMap editing techniques at the regular Missing Maps Project event in London.
Week 8 (19–25 Feb2025-02-19–)		English Working on OpenStreetMap tech at the Karlsruhe Hack Weekend.
Week 9 (26 Feb – 4 Mar2025-02-26–)		English This year Open Data Day will be celebrated on March 3rd and there are already 406 events registered all around the world. Many of them will have activities related to OpenStreetMap. Check out the map and participate in an event near you!
Week 10 (5–11 Mar2025-03-05–)		English Colorful exploration of OpenStreetMap buildings data on the MIT Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Map produced by Curran Kelleher [1].
Week 11 (12–18 Mar2025-03-12–)		English Beautiful 3D visualization of Manhattan's OpenStreetMap data. Made by Matteo Prati using the open source software Blender. Check out other images in his website.
Week 12 (19–25 Mar2025-03-19–)		English Diversity of OpenStreetMap retail and services in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Orange tiles indicate a high diversity, while purple tiles indicate a low diversity. Image produced by Alessandro Venerandi.
Week 13 (26 Mar – 1 Apr2025-03-26–)		English Touch Mapper (touch-mapper.org) lets you create a 3D printed maps based on OpenStreetMap data. Tactile maps like this can be used for navigation by the blind.
Week 14 (2–8 Apr2025-04-02–)		English A huge printed map in an office in Russia. Made by Dmitry Afonin with QGIS using OSM data. More photos and more maps.
Week 15 (9–15 Apr2025-04-09–)		English OpenStreetMap France (a local chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation) was present at “Les Journées du logiciel libre”, a free software event that was held on Lyon, France, on 24–25 March 2018. Picture by Sylvain Maillard.
Week 16 (16–22 Apr2025-04-16–)		English Calculating routing distances to sanitation facilities in Lusaka, Zambia. A project presented at Gather Data Dive.
Week 17 (23–29 Apr2025-04-23–)		English HOT Board Member Kuo-Yu slayer Chuang introducing the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Missing Maps Project to hundreds of participants in Taipei American School Mapathon. One of the biggest Mapathons ever held in Taiwan.
Week 18 (30 Apr – 6 May2025-04-30–)		English Thematic map of street names by gender in Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France), made in the “Dessine ta ville” (Draw your city) workshop for the “Libre en fête 2018” event organized by Linux-Alpes (apitux.org).
Week 19 (7–13 May2025-05-07–)		English OpenStreetMap on a public bus in Málaga, Spain. Spotted by Nick Doiron.
Week 20 (14–20 May2025-05-14–)		English State of the Map Poland 2018 took place last month in Poznań.
Week 21 (21–27 May2025-05-21–)		English “City Maps – a coloring book for adults”, by Gretchen Peterson, is another very creative use of OpenStreetMap data.
Week 22 (28 May – 3 Jun2025-05-28–)		English A 3D barplot showing occurrences of biergartens within the OpenStreetMap data for Germany. This and a range of other visualisations were created with this Blender/Python project by Nikolai Janakiev.
Week 23 (4–10 Jun2025-06-04–)		English OSMUK held their first AGM recently, with an Open Data Manchester event alongside.
Week 24 (11–17 Jun2025-06-11–)		English OSMUK held their first AGM recently, with an Open Data Manchester event alongside.
Week 25 (18–24 Jun2025-06-18–)		English Our maps of the 12 venues of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Week 26 (25 Jun – 1 Jul2025-06-25–)		English A map (on Carto Builder) showing building density after 2017 Mexico Earthquakes mapping efforts in Juchitán, Oaxaca, created with CARTO.
Week 27 (2–8 Jul2025-07-02–)		English 3D rendering of Amsterdam by Paleo Pixels, who developed converter scripts to load OpenStreetMap data into the “Houdini” 3D software.
Week 28 (9–15 Jul2025-07-09–)		English The Wikimedia Foundation recently announced new support for internationalized map renderings. E.g. showing European place names in Japanese.
Week 29 (16–22 Jul2025-07-16–)		English Arjan Schrauwen from Dutch graphics design firm Beeldkompaan has taken a chunk of New York OpenStreetMap buildings data to a new moonbase location.
Week 30 (23–29 Jul2025-07-23–)		English Little Big City, “Generating city on a little planet on the web”: a project by Yi Shen, using OpenStreetMap data via Nextzen vector tiles.
Week 31 (30 Jul – 5 Aug2025-07-30–)		English State of the Map 2018, the international OpenStreetMap conference, was held in Milan, Italy.
Week 32 (6–12 Aug2025-08-06–)		English Miriam Gonzales and Céline Jacquin, from the Mexican OpenStreetMap community, were interviewed by the TV UNAM (the TV channel of the main Mexico university). They talked about OSM, GeoChicas and humanitarian mapping.
Week 33 (13–19 Aug2025-08-13–)		English "Accumulation curves" showing the growth of shops data in the UK by SK53. This image shows a graph for each of the top shop types while his recent blog post compares and analyses growth shapes in various other ways.
Week 34 (20–26 Aug2025-08-20–)		English Celebrations of the OpenStreetMap 14th Birthday, and a mapathon taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Week 35 (27 Aug – 2 Sep2025-08-27–)		English OSM Inspector lets you find broken multipolygons now that the default map layer is less tolerant of rendering them.
Week 36 (3–9 Sep2025-09-03–)		English A visualisation of the increase in the node density in the Philippines from April to the end of June 2018
Week 37 (10–16 Sep2025-09-10–)		English The OSM-for-the-dyslexic project (osm4dys.org) is creating apps and map styles for use by dyslexic people.
Week 38 (17–23 Sep2025-09-17–)		English Public health researcher John F. Pearson created this map for a Public Health Post article, showing open data on discarded needle collections in Boston, Massachusetts, presented on an OpenStreetMap base map.
Week 39 (24–30 Sep2025-09-24–)		English The community engaged in disaster preparedness/response mapping for Typhoon Ompong in the Philippines, including this mapathon event hosted by the Red Cross.
Week 40 (1–7 Oct2025-10-01–)		English State of the Map Latam 2018 took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the 4th edition of that regional conference that gathers together the OpenStreetMap community of all Latin America
Week 41 (8–14 Oct2025-10-08–)		English State Of The Map U.S. 2018 took place last weekend in Detroit
Week 42 (15–21 Oct2025-10-15–)		English The gloriously detailed mapping of the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hannover, Germany, shown here within JOSM editor, with the Mapillary plugin showing the view on the ground.
Week 43 (22–28 Oct2025-10-22–)		English The Karlsruhe Hack Weekend October 2018 took place last weekend. A get-together of folks doing technical work on OpenStreetMap
Week 44 (29 Oct – 4 Nov2025-10-29–)		English Teachers from Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Romania and Germany met in Saarburg, Germany for week-long training session in humanitarian mapping and a first hackathon, to kick off a two year Erasmus+ project
Week 45 (5–11 Nov2025-11-05–)		English Mappers in Chiang Mai, Thailand, sometimes meet at the Shewe Cafe, which can serve you an OpenStreetMap cappuccino!
Week 46 (12–18 Nov2025-11-12–)		English The city of Pristina in Kosovo, has adopted OpenStreetMap for their tourism maps, including this leaftlet. Read more on Stereo's diary
Week 47 (19–25 Nov2025-11-19–)		English State of the Map Asia 2018 last weekend brought together mapping enthusiasts in Bangalore from countries across the globe, for two days of interesting sessions and workshops.
Week 48 (26 Nov – 2 Dec2025-11-26–)		English Last week geocaching enthusiasts in Ljubljana were introduced to OpenStreetMap editing at a meetup held in the Ljubljana Rudnik volunteer fire brigade center.
Week 49 (3–9 Dec2025-12-03–)		English Bence Mélykúti blogged about Santa's Christmas delivery route and the fun he had with OpenStreetMap data for Germany and Hungary.
Week 50 (10–16 Dec2025-12-10–)		English In the October 2018 issue of National Geographic Slovenija OpenStreetMap was used to illustrate the article about Šalek lakes.
Week 51 (17–23 Dec2025-12-17–)		English Last week, MAMAPA organized a mapathon at Ideenw3rk -- a workspace inside the beautifully-renovated city Public Library -- in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Working in tandem, immigrants and locals mapped features together, while simultaneously practicing their German.
Week 52 (24–30 Dec.)		English Ito World produced another spectacular Christmas animation, showing delivery routes over the OpenStreetMap road network for every address in the UK, for SNT logistics to deliver presents! (This is fictional. In fact Santa delivers presents by sleigh)