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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
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- Check the ready-to-use products for your mobile device, your desktop computer or the web services
- ...more on using OpenStreetMap
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- Use OpenStreetMap for your software
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| 2025 | |
| 26 Apr | The wiki will be in read-only mode as the operations team upgrades MediaWiki. The downtime will start at 09:00 UTC and is estimated to last 8 hours. |
| 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 |
Upcoming events (add) – See also: Past Events Event archive 2004-2020
| 21st–25th April | Mapathon for Kinshasa City | Pende, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 22nd April | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 22nd April | East Midlands pub meet-up | Derby, England, United Kingdom |
| 22nd April | Kieler Mapper*innentreffen | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
| 23rd April | Missing Maps - DRK & MSF Online Mapathon | |
| 24th April | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 24th April | Mapatón Humanitario Universidad de Zaragoza | Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain |
| 24th April | Atelier - mapathon: évaluation post-cyclonique des dommages aux bâtiments | |
| 25th April | UN Mappers Mappy Hour | |
| 25th April | SOSM Annual General Assembly | |
| 26th April | OSMF Affiliation Focus Group Discussion: Thematic and non-geographical groups | |
| 27th April | 雲林六房天上聖母土庫、虎尾維基街景資料工作坊 | Dounan Township, Taiwan |
| 28th April | Rencontre Saint-Étienne et sud Loire | Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France |
| 29th April | Wheelmapevent Stadt Korbach + Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg | Korbach, Hesse, Germany |
| 29th April | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 30th April | Rostocker Treffen | Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany |
| 30th April | 74. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch | Vienna, Austria |
| 30th April | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 2nd May | OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting | |
| 4th May | 16th OSM Delhi Mapping Party (Online) | Delhi, India |
| 6th May | Květnový brněnský Missing Maps Mapathon na Geografickém ústavu | Brno, Czechia |
| 6th May | OSM Treffen Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 6th May | Missing Maps mapathon Žilina #17 | Žilina, Region of Žilina, Slovakia |
| 6th May | Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | |
| 7th May | iD Community Chat | |
| 7th May | Stuttgarter OpenStreetMap-Treffen | Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 8th May | OSM Pils #1v1.1 2025 | Oslo, Norway |
| 8th May | Bochumer OSM-Treffen | Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 11th May | 16th OSM Delhi Mapping Party | Delhi, India |
| 11th May | OSMmapperCPH | Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark |
| 11th May | Stadt-Spaziergang mit OpenStreetMap | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
| 12th May | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #76 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 13th May | OSM Utah Monthly Map Night | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| 13th May | Hamburger Mappertreffen | Hamburg, Germany |
| 13th May | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 14th May | Mapping Hidden Stories: reflecting on pedestrian accessibility in Athens | Athens, Attica, Greece |
| 14th May | Münchner OSM-Treffen | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| 16th–18th May | FOSSGIS-OSM-Communitytreffen im Linuxhotel | Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 17th May | Missing Maps Day Olomouc 2025 | Olomouc, Central Moravia, Czechia |
| 17th May | Joy Diversion | Manchester, England, United Kingdom |
| 17th May | Microcartopartie Estrablin (38) | Estrablin, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France |
| 20th May | Réunion du groupe local de Lyon | Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France |
| 20th May | 188. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 20th May | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 21st May | [Online] Map-py Wednesday | |
| 23rd May | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 27th May | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 28th May | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 29th May | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 1st June | 17th OSM Delhi Mapping Party (Online) | New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| 3rd June | OSM Treffen Salzburg | Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria |
| 7th June | Kartenwerkstatt Augustusburg | Augustusburg, Saxony, Germany |
| 8th June | 17th OSM Delhi Mapping Party | New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| 9th June | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #77 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 10th June | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 10th June | Hamburger Mappertreffen | Hamburg, Germany |
| 12th June | 17. Österreichischer OSM-Stammtisch (online) | Stainach-Pürgg, Styria, Austria |
| 12th June | Münchner OSM-Treffen | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| 13th–15th June | State of the Map France 2025 | Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France |
| 14th June | Apér'OSM Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | Besançon, Bourgogne – Franche-Comté, France |
| 17th June | 188. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 17th June | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 19th–21st June | State of the Map US | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| 23rd June | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 24th June | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 26th June | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 27th June | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| 8th July | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 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 | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 17th July | Missing Maps Mapathon in Heidelberg MSF | Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| 22nd July | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 24th July | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 24th July | 75. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch | Vienna, Austria |
| 31st July | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 5th August | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 11th August | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #79 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 19th August | South Bay Map Night | San Jose, California, United States |
| 19th August | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 24th August | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 28th August | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 4th–6th September | SotM LatAm 2025 | Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
| 15th September | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #80 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 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 | [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting | |
| 25th September | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 3rd–5th October | State of the Map 2025 | Quezon City, Philippines |
| 13th October | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #81 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 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 |
| 10th November | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #82 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 18th November | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 25th November | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 28th–30th November | State of the Map Africa 2025 | Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania |
| 8th December | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #83 | Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 16th December | Lüneburger Mappertreffen | Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 18th December | 19. Österreichischer OSM-Stammtisch (online) | Stainach-Pürgg, Styria, Austria |
| 26th December | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany |
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