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Free Geographic Data OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. The project was started 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.	Show me the map! I want to see maps – get out of my way!	Image of the Week Template:Iotw text/2025-12 Other featured images
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Fuenlabrada, Community of Madrid, Spain 27th–28th March OpenThePaths 2025 Seattle, Washington, United States 27th March [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting 28th March Mapathon @ UZH DSI 2025 Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 29th March FOSSGIS 2025 - OSM-Samstag Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 31st March Green Open Data Day 2025 (ou Dia Verde dos Dados Abertos 2025) Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 31st March Green Open Data Day (ou Dia Verde dos Dados Abertos) 31st March Rencontre Saint-Étienne et sud Loire Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France 1st April Missing Maps Lisbon Mapathon with MSF Madalena, Lisbon, Portugal 1st April OSM Treffen Salzburg Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria 1st April Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] 1st April South Bay Map Night San Jose, California, United States 2nd April Stuttgarter OpenStreetMap-Treffen Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 4th April OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting 5th April Social Mapping Saturday: Rossmoyne Western Australia, Australia 5th April OSMF Affiliation Focus Group Discussion: Thematic and non-geographical groups 6th April 15th OSM Delhi Mapping Party (Online) Delhi, Delhi, India 8th April OSM Utah Monthly Map Night Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 8th April Münchner OSM-Treffen Munich, Bavaria, Germany 8th April Hamburger Mappertreffen Hamburg, Germany 8th April Berner OpenStreetMap-Znacht Bern, Bern, Switzerland 10th April OpenStreetMap: Mapping & Hiking Camerino, Italy 10th April Bochumer OSM-Treffen Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 13th April OSMmapperCPH Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 13th April 15th OSM Delhi Mapping Party Delhi, Delhi, India 14th April OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #75 Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan 15th April Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng] 15th April Réunion du groupe local de Lyon Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France 15th April 187. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 15th April South Bay Map Night San Jose, California, United States 15th April Lüneburger Mappertreffen Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany 16th April Maptime Amsterdam: Springtime Mapping Party Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands 16th April 74. Wiener OSM-Stammtisch Vienna, Austria 22nd April OSM-Stammtisch Hannover Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany 22nd April East Midlands pub meet-up Derby, England, United Kingdom 24th April [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors - public videomeeting 24th April Mapatón Humanitario Universidad de Zaragoza Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain 29th April South Bay Map Night San Jose, California, United States 30th April Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 4th May 16th OSM Delhi Mapping Party (Online) Delhi, India 6th May OSM Treffen Salzburg Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria 8th May Bochumer OSM-Treffen Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 11th May 16th OSM Delhi Mapping Party Delhi, India 12th May OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #76 Chengnei, Taipei, Taiwan 13th May South Bay Map Night San Jose, California, United States 13th May Hamburger Mappertreffen Hamburg, Germany 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Add your event to OpenStreetMap Calendar		Platform status (Wiki status) News 2025 10 Mar2025-03-10–2025-03-11 Manila, Philippines will host the next State of the Map from 3 to 5 October, 2025! Read more about the event here! 7 Feb2025-02-07–2025-02-08 Eight new companies joined the OSM Corporate Membership Program in 2024! 7 Jan2025-01-07–2025-01-08 Want to work on OpenStreetMap? Apply to be the OSM Core Software Development Facilitator! Applications will be accepted until January 21. 2024 20 Dec2024-12-20–2024-12-21 Sovereign Tech Fund invests €384k in OpenStreetMap. 19 Dec2024-12-19–2024-12-20 Meta has donated €178k to the OpenStreetMap Foundation to support community and core infrastructure. 17 Dec2024-12-17–2024-12-18 All services are back live after an outage – map away. :) 19 Oct2024-10-19–2024-10-20 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 Oct2024-10-12–2024-10-13 Voting is open for the 2024 board election. Read about voting eligibility, instructions and common questions here. 9 Oct2024-10-09–2024-10-10 Learn about how OSM's infrastructure has been progressing with an update from OSM's Senior Site Reliability Engineer. 27 Sep2024-09-27–2024-09-28 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 Aug2024-08-09–2024-08-10 OpenStreetMap's 20th birthday. See where birthday parties and meetings were held. 9 Aug2024-08-09–2024-08-10 Read OSM's founder Steve Coast's thoughts on the 20th birthday of OpenStreetMap. 18 Jun2024-06-18–2024-06-19 OpenStreetMap Foundation board member Sarah Hoffman participated in the United Nations' UN-Maps conference, hear more about how the UN uses OSM. 7 Jun2024-06-07–2024-06-08 See a progress update on vector tiles from the Engineering Working Group to learn more about this exciting improvement to openstreetmap.org. 21 May2024-05-21–2024-05-22 Read about what the OSM Foundation Board has been up to – highlights from the OSMF Board Spring 2024 Meeting. 17 Apr2024-04-17–2024-04-18 Learn about changes in authorizations with OAuth 1.0a and HTTP Basic Auth shutdown on OpenStreetMap.org. 11 Apr2024-04-11–2024-04-12 Join the OpenStreetMap Foundation! Here are three great reasons to join the OSM Foundation as a member. 4 Apr2024-04-04–2024-04-05 The academic track at the 2024 State of the Map conference has opened for submissions as well! Learn more about submitting your academic research. 20 Mar2024-03-20–2024-03-21 The call for participation in the 2024 State of the Map conference is open! Learn more about submitting an idea for a presentation. 12 Mar2024-03-12–2024-03-13 The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board looks ahead to 2024. 12 Mar2024-03-12–2024-03-13 Help us grow and diversify OSM Foundation membership worldwide! 14 Feb2024-02-14–2024-02-15 Welcome OpenStreetMap Belgium, the newest (and returning) OSMF Local Chapter. 13 Feb2024-02-13–2024-02-14 OpenStreetMap giving recap: Mappers, universities, companies, and nonprofits contributed over £373,000 to support OSM in 2023. 11 Feb2024-02-11–2024-02-12 2024: announcing the year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps. 5 Feb2024-02-05–2024-02-06 OpenStreetMap named as digital public good by United Nations-affiliated agency. 23 Jan2024-01-23–2024-01-24 Tom Hughes recognized for OpenStreetMap contributions on OpenUK’s 2024 Honours List. older news... 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