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[1] visualised turn restrictions | © Zartbitter | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.
Mapping campaigns
- confusedbuffalo is proposing an automated edit of phone numbers in the US to remove extra punctuation and to add the country code. This will standardise numbers and make it easier to identify genuinely invalid phone numbers. Contributors are invited to discuss in the forum thread and get in touch if they think such an edit would also be useful and accepted in their country.
Community
- Alex Spritze has recorded
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his OSM editing activity and then published
- Ian Buck and Parker Seaman, of the Streets.mn podcast, have conducted an interview with Jackson Kruger, a Minnesota-based OpenStreetMap contributor, in an episode titled ‘Demystifying OpenStreetMap’.
- Arizona State University News reported that YouthMappers marked its tenth anniversary on 17 November. Over the decade it has grown to 400 chapters in 80-plus countries with 26 million OpenStreetMap edits.
Imports
- GridRecce is preparing an OSM import project to improve address coverage in the City of Brampton, Canada, using open data provided through the Brampton GeoHub.
Humanitarian OSM
- A surge of recent mapping activity has been recorded in the areas surrounding Indonesia’s Mount Semeru, the highest peak of Java. The pattern reflects humanitarian mapping efforts by the OpenStreetMap Indonesia community following the volcano’s eruption on Wednesday 19 November at 4 pm local time.
Maps
- Bella Mironova shared a submission for Day 14 of the 30DayMapChallenge: a map titled ‘Palmanova’, depicting the star-shaped fortress city in northeastern Italy. This map was created using OpenStreetMap data.
OSM in action
- Dennis Metzler has built
Releases
- In the November update of Organic Maps, lakes, protected areas, and boundaries of uploaded regions are now displayed on overview zooms. Routing also now takes into account conditional access restrictions.
- Pablo Brasero gave a rundown of changes made to the OpenStreetMap website software since mid-October, including more dark mode compatibility, a redesigned context menu on the home page, and lots of behind-the-scenes improvements to the developer experience.
- Tobias Zwick announced the release of StreetComplete version 62.0, which introduces several new quests and improvements.
Did you know that …
- … [1] Zartbitter has a web map that visualises turn restrictions using OpenStreetMap data and will flag those with errors?
- … you can find all of weeklyOSM’s articles as a .csv file in Raquel Dezidério Souto’s GitHub repository? The extraction was done by TheFive, lead developer of the OSMBC. The last backup was done on 15 November 2025 and we intend to update this on a regular basis.
OSM in the media
- Pernille Tranberg, of DataEthics, has written an article titled ‘OpenStreetMap is for the People’. The article notes that OSM is maintained by a global community of volunteers who prioritise human-centred mapping, allowing users to find routes for walking, biking, or specific needs like finding shaded paths, all while offering an environment free from surveillance capitalism.
- The public broadcaster in Cherkasy, Ukraine, has spoken
with architect and OpenStreetMap contributor Fedir Gontsa about the reconstruction of historic slopes, the city’s architectural heritage, and the importance of high-quality mapping for urban planning.
Other “geo” things
- The French National Library has launched Galligeo
, a tool for visualising (on an OSM tile background) geolocated maps from its collection. It is also possible to contribute
- Zhenlong Li, a professor at Penn State University (PSU), has shared that the SpatialAnalysisAgent (or the GIS Copilot), a user-friendly QGIS plugin, now offers free access with a GIBD account with a daily limit. The PSU has also published a good guide to learn how to create an account and start to use the geoAI.
- Sorami Shiromizu has published an article about Rekichizu
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Upcoming Events
| Country | Where | Venue | What | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne – CartONG [fr] | 2025-11-24 | |||
| Karlovac | Prostorija, Mije Krešića 4, Karlovac | OSM predavanje i StreetComplete u praksi u Karlovacu | 2025-11-25 | |
| Berlin | Online | OSM-Verkehrswende #70 | 2025-11-25 | |
| Transmission Grid Mapping MapYourGrid | 2025-11-26 | |||
| Toronto | Workhaus Dundas | 2025-11-26 | ||
| Fabrique des possibles | Réunion OpenStreetMap | 2025-11-26 | ||
| Hannover | Kuriosum | OSM-Stammtisch Hannover | 2025-11-26 | |
| Mittelweser-Mappertreffen | 2025-11-26 | |||
| Düsseldorf | Online bei https://meet.jit.si/OSM-DUS-2025 | Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online) | 2025-11-26 | |
| Freiburg im Breisgau | CCC FR | OSM-Treffen Freiburg Br. | 2025-11-26 | |
| [Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting | 2025-11-27 | |||
| Trento | Trento | FOSS4G-IT – OSMit 2025 | 2025-11-27 – 2025-11-28 | |
| Amsterdam | TomTom HQ | Maptime Amsterdam: Map & Meet | 2025-11-27 | |
| Madrid | Online | Mappy Hour OSM España | 2025-11-27 | |
| Општина Стара Пазова | Saloon Two guns | Redovno okupljanje | 2025-11-27 | |
| Dar es-Salaam | State of the Map Africa 2025 | 2025-11-28 – 2025-11-30 | ||
| OSMF Engineering Working Group meeting | 2025-11-28 | |||
| Bengaluru | Shanti Nagar | OSM Bengaluru Mapping Party | 2025-11-30 | |
| Melbourne | AURIN, Melbourne Uni Baldwin Spencer Building 113 | PIA Urban Data Network Missing Maps: Map Party for a Cause Melbourne | 2025-12-01 | |
| Oslo | Mesh Nationaltheatret | Mapathon – Monthly Missing Maps w/ EWB Norway | 2025-12-02 | |
| Salzburg | Bewohnerservice Elisabeth-Vorstadt | OSM Treffen Salzburg | 2025-12-02 | |
| Bern | Yaadein, Bern | Berner OpenStreetMap-Znacht | 2025-12-02 | |
| Missing Maps London: (Online) Mapathon [eng] | 2025-12-02 | |||
| Derby | The Brunswick, Railway Terrace, Derby | East Midlands pub meet-up | 2025-12-02 | |
| iD Community Chat | 2025-12-03 | |||
| OSM Indoor Meetup | 2025-12-03 | |||
| Stuttgart | Stuttgart | Stuttgarter OpenStreetMap-Treffen | 2025-12-03 | |
| Madrid | Online | Mappy Hour OSM España | 2025-12-04 | |
| UN Mappers #ValidationFriday Mappy Hour | 2025-12-05 | |||
| Olomouc | SotM CZ+SK 2025 | 2025-12-05 | ||
| 大阪市 | 大阪大学中之島センター | State of the Map Japan 2025 | 2025-12-06 | |
| Paris | Carrefour Numérique² de la Cité des Sciences | PSL XXL | 2025-12-06 – 2025-12-07 | |
| Biella | Sala Riunioni 2, CTV Centro Territoriale per il Vo | Incontro dei mapper di Biellese, Vercellese e Canavese | 2025-12-06 | |
| Braunschweig | Stratum0 | Braunschweiger Mappertreffen im Stratum0 Hackerspace | 2025-12-06 | |
| नई दिल्ली | Jitsi Meet (online) | OSM India – Monthly Online Mapathon | 2025-12-07 | |
| Missing Maps : Mapathon en ligne – CartONG [fr] | 2025-12-08 | |||
| 臺北市 | MozSpace Taipei | OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Taipei #83 | 2025-12-08 |
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