Announcing SotM 2027 in Bogota

It’s time to reconnect with familiar faces and meet new friends from the OpenStreetMap family around the world!

We are excited to share that State of the Map (SotM), the international gathering of the OpenStreetMap community, will take place in Bogotá, Colombia in 2-4 July 2027! This edition will gather mappers, open data advocates, developers, and community leaders from across the world to celebrate OSM, open collaboration and community-driven mapping. Learning from past conferences, our goal for 2027 is to open the doors even wider, making it easier for more people to join, contribute, and be heard in this global celebration of open mapping.

Together with our amazing local team in Bogotá, we are working to build a creative, welcoming, and truly inclusive SotM experience, where every session and activity is designed with our global community in mind.

A message from the Bogota Local Team:
¡Hola desde Bogotá! For the Colombian and Latin American OpenStreetMap communities, hosting State of the Map is a dream come true. Our local team, led by AC3, the OpenStreetMap chapter in Colombia, brings together mappers from Bogotá, Medellín, Cúcuta, Yopal, Puerto López and beyond, and we are preparing a conference that feels like home for everyone. You will meet us at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, a green and historic campus in the heart of the city, 2,600 meters closer to the stars. Bring your questions, your maps and your curiosity: we will bring the coffee, the music and a very warm welcome. ¡Nos vemos en Bogotá!

Save the date and start getting ready for SotM 2027! More details on speakers, program, tickets, and ways to get involved will be coming soon. So bring your maps, bring your ideas, and let’s make this an edition to remember!

SotM Organising Committee

The State of the Map conference is the annual, international conference of OpenStreetMap, organised by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, formed to support the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data for anyone to use and share.

The OpenStreetMap Foundation owns and maintains the infrastructure of the OpenStreetMap project, is financially supported by membership fees and donations, and organises the annual, international State of the Map conference. Our volunteer Working Groups and small core staff work to support the OpenStreetMap project. Donate or Join the OpenStreetMap Foundation for just £15 a year or for free if you are an active OpenStreetMap contributor.

OpenStreetMap was founded in 2004 and is an international project to create a free map of the world. To do so, we, thousands of volunteers, collect data about roads, railways, rivers, forests, buildings and a lot more worldwide. Our map data can be downloaded for free by everyone and used for any purpose – including commercial usage. It is possible to produce your own maps which highlight certain features, to calculate routes etc. OpenStreetMap is increasingly used when one needs maps which can be very quickly, or easily, updated.

2026 Community Microgrants call for applications

Some of the best things that happen in the OpenStreetMap community are small: micro-mapping contributions from around the world, a Saturday mapping party, an editathon to improve OSM Wiki, or a hackathon to fix issues on some of the tools that we use. Most of them run on volunteer time and can occasionally stall for the need of a venue, or a few hours of internet. When we asked at the 2026 Local Chapters and Communities Congress what makes it hard to sustain a local community, the most common answer was time and money.

The Local Chapters and Communities Working Group is launching the 2026 Community Microgrants to help with that. We have set aside a total of €5000 that will be distributed to various OpenStreetMap communities in grants of up to €500. Applications are open from 5 October to 25 October.

These are deliberately small grants for small, concrete activities like a mapathon, a one-day field mapping project, a validation sprint, a workshop with a local school or university group, or documentation translation. We’re less likely to fund conference travel, salaries, paid mapping, or recurring costs. Please review the full microgrant guidelines on the OSM Wiki.

Applying is quick. Go to the Microgrants wiki page, type a short project name into the input box under “Start an application”, and you’ll get a page ready to fill in that includes your budget. Grants are up to €500, but we request that you only ask for what your activity actually costs. Most won’t need the full amount, and the smaller the requests, the more communities we can support. These grants are for groups rather than individuals: local OSM communities, Local Chapters, YouthMappers chapters, and similar. We recommend discussing plans with your community first to avoid having multiple applications from the same group.

If you can’t edit the wiki, email your application to local@osmfoundation.org before the deadline and we’ll post it for you!

We’ll announce the results in the first week of November, and funded activities can run from mid-November 2026 to March 2027. Questions are welcome on the Discourse thread or at local@osmfoundation.org.

Header image (left to right, top to bottom): Mapbeks mapping party in Metro Manila, Philippines (2019, public domain); field mapping in Dakar, Senegal (2014, public domain); mapping party in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (2014, Raylton P. Sousa, CC BY-SA 3.0); school mapping party in Giengen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (2015, Klaus-Dieter Keller, CC BY-SA 4.0).

Join the 31 Day OSM Challenge this October!

Maptober is here! Starting today, the OpenStreetMap Foundation’s Local Chapters and Communities Working Group invites mappers everywhere to take part in the 31 Day OSM Challenge. Inspired by the #30DayMapChallenge that happens every November, this new challenge gives you a daily theme to improve OpenStreetMap, from adding trees or improving woods on Day 1 to benches, bridges, railways, healthcare, and more. Just complete the day’s task, tag your changesets with #31DayOSMChallenge and #Maptober hashtags, and share your edits on social media if you like.

There’s no pressure to map every day and you can complete the challenge at your own pace. There is no prize beyond knowing you’ve contributed to the world’s best open map. This is a great way to sharpen your skills, try new tools, and learn how to map different kinds of features. Just keep to OSM’s good practices rather than mapping only to tick a box.

Check out the full list of daily themes at the OSM Wiki and start mapping! 🗺️

What’s in a name? Naming things in OpenStreetMap

a Road Sign, Pointing to the right is HAM (1/2) and below than SANDWICH (3) To the left is Finglesham (1/2) and DEAL (4) — Ham Sandwich sign by Oast House Archive. © Copyright Oast House Archive and licensed for reuse under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Whether you are from, Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Springfield or Ea names are important. They help us identify where we are, where we are from and where we want to go to.

Almost everything has a name and OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped 115 million names.

Local name of features on www.openstreetmap.org

In OpenStreetMap, the verbal identifier with which people refer to something is documented by the name= tag. This usually is the most common name in the local language and is the most obvious name of the feature. For example, if you are in France and map a road called “Rue des Beaux-Arts”, you add name=Rue des Beaux-Arts so that everyone knows what that road is called.

There are many map styles based on OpenStreetMap data. On www.openstreetmap.org, we display “osm-carto” style by default, with a layer switcher for many others.

There are a few simple rules that the OpenStreetMap community follows, including:

name= is typically the commonly used name in the local language. A street in Paris has as name= its French name, not the name in English.
name= should be verifiable.
name= should be a proper name – not a description or a reference id.

The recording of names is a complex issue, but these are the main rules we use.

The OpenStreetMap community tries to ensure that the name= tags in the OpenStreetMap database are correct, for mapped features with names such as shops, places, streets, lakes or even oceans.

Additional names of features on www.openstreetmap.org

In addition to the local name, set by name=, objects in OpenStreetMap very often have one or more names. Such additional names are classified by their function – how they are used in contrast to the local name, or what purpose they serve for data users. We can store old names, local names, official names, and alternative names.

Both local and other name keys can also be suffixed with a language code. If you want to add a name in another language, you use a separate tag like name:en= for English or name:fr= for French, and leave the name= tag in the local language. The ISO language code system we use allows more details, such as the writing system used, or even the region and dialect. The English spoke in Britain isn’t the same as that spoken in Australia.

Therefore, the OpenStreetMap database contains features with multiple names.

On the default layer of the www.openstreetmap.org website (osm-carto) we don’t show different names based on where you are, this means everyone will see the name of the feature in the local language. It’s important that the website has a layer where this is the case. This is mostly a technical reason.

While only name= is displayed on the default layer of www.openstreetmap.org, there are additional layers on the website and there is ongoing work on the new Vector layer to show names in your local language, but more about that in a later post. There are other map styles showing names only in German, or only in English.

One database – unlimited maps: create the map you want

It is important to note that OpenStreetMap data is offered to everyone for free, under the ODbL licence, and used for any purpose – including commercial usage.

It is possible to produce your own maps which, for example, show only a subset of the mapped names or features. The www.openstreetmap.org website’s main purpose is to facilitate OpenStreetMap mappers and not to be a single map for every use. OpenStreetMap data is used by individuals, big companies, game companies, grassroot organisations, governmental agencies, humanitarian groups and many others and the data can be used to create unlimited maps and for other purposes.

What about official names?

Mostly the official name will match the commonly used name of a feature. Sometimes people will continue to use the original name, so our name tag will stay. We can store the official names of mapped features when different, in the official_name= tag

In cases like the executive order related to Lake Ontario, it’s not unusual that there will be a community discussion and in this case the tag official_name:en-US=Lake America has been added to the lake on OpenStreetMap, to record the new official en-US name. The primary name of the lake remains the same. Since a lot of people still use the name “Lake Ontario” we keep it as name. The addition of the official_name:en-US=Lake America name means that anyone searching for Lake America on www.openstreetmap.org and apps/services using OpenStreetMap data which have all the feature names, will find Lake Ontario.

The Name of the Game

OpenStreetMap’s flexible data model means that if you want to show a map, with certain names, or certain langauges, we provide a world-wide freely-usable database for you to use. Just adjust your map style to prefer one name tag over another, and you’ll automatically get the map you want.

OpenStreetMap’s community base, and non-commerical freedom, international project structure, and “on the ground rule” means that if you use the name tag, then the names on the map will be based on what people are actually using.

When it comes to maps, OpenStreetMap is the only name in town!

Thanking Proton, our newest Platinum sponsor

OpenStreetMap Foundation is pleased and proud to announce that Proton AG has been recognised as a Platinum Corporate Member, following two donations over the past two years totalling around €70,000.

Proton came to us with unsolicited donations both times. They believe in our project, the Foundation, but most importantly, our community. To quote them directly, “We truly value the partnership with OpenStreetMap”.

These donations, however, were not accidental. The values of the two organisations do align very well on privacy. OSMF values and recognises the privacy of our contributors. More than 10 years ago, we adjusted our constitution to allow the community to become associate members of OSMF, to vote for the board of directors, and to financially support the Foundation, with less personal information and without being entered on the register of members, which can be inspected by the public under UK company law. We recognise there are many good reasons why someone wouldn’t want everything to be recorded. Proton is in the business of offering privacy-respecting emails, VPNs, storage tools, video conferencing and office tools that don’t share your data with anybody, not even Proton themselves. The alignment between us isn’t something either of us had to explain to the other. Maybe they can offer privacy respecting maps too!

OpenStreetMap runs the largest open geographic dataset in the world, built by volunteers and used by humanitarian responders and some of the largest technology companies on the planet. OSM is free to use but running OSM costs money to pay for the servers, infrastructure, and the people who keep it working. Most of that money comes from corporate members who support the project and who subscribe to several sponsorship tiers. Proton gave us unconditional money and didn’t ask for anything in return. We really wanted to acknowledge the gift so, noting that their donations put them over our Platinum tier, our highest level of corporate membership, we have awarded them Platinum status in recognition of their awesome support.

Thank you, Proton.

Article written by Dani Waltersdorfer, published by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz.
Updated on 10th November 2026 to better reflect the conditions of the associate membership; correction proposed by Canopyfalls.

A Recap of the March Local Chapters & Communities Congress

What is the Local Chapters & Communities Congress?

The Local Chapters and Communities Congress 2026 (LCCC 2026) is a virtual event where leaders and members of various OSM communities, whether they are officially recognized Local Chapters of the OSM Foundation or just a regular user group of OSM mappers, come together to share stories and learn from each other. Each year we convenet to see what kinds of organizational efforts we can share together to support and grow our mapping communities. You can see LCCC notes and the full agenda/more info on the wiki page.

What did we discuss?

The group met on a Saturday, March 28, and over the course of 2 hours more than 30 particants joined the Congress from Italy, Indonesia, Greece, the USA, Belgium, Kenya, Canada, Brazil, Malawi, and more! To kick things off, the group went around the room and the participants shared some things their communities were working on. This included mapping rivers and streams in the Philippines, mapping toponyms in Indonesia, Spain having their first SOTM, mapping in Greece, work of the MapRVA group in Richmond VA USA, mapathons in Kenya, mapping in a shareable format for Quebec, and more fun things.

An update from the OSMF Board

In the next part of the event, members of the OSMF Board shared information about the OSMF and what things they have been up to over the year. In 2025 it welcomed new corporate members (e.g., Niantic Spatial, Regione Marche) and secured a Sovereign Tech Fund grant of €384,000 and welcomed AC3 in Colombia as a new local chapter. They are presently fundraising for an additional operations position, planning a Madrid board F2F, establishing a Belgium subsidiary, and organizing SotM 2026 in Paris (Aug 28–30). Catch up with them at the Board AMA in Paris in August!

Open Discussion: Overcoming Challenges in OSM

The next part of the congress was time for the participants to share perspective and experience, with some questions as guidance. The LCCWG used the Menti tool to get feedback asynch from participants and then space was held to discuss. You can see the full notes at this Hackpad.

If a new mapper asked you ‘what’s the hardest part about being in the OSM community’ what would you say?
Answers included challenges with language, unclear entry points, and feeling unwelcome in the community. Here are a few quotes:

Documentation mostly in English
Hard to explain why OSM is needed when Google Maps, Waze & Apple Maps already exist
Not being demotivated by expert mappers who might “yell” at them for doing mistakes while mapping
Encountering negative/unproductive discourse in OSM fora, which can be discourage participation from new users
If you are not already technologically literate, it’s a lot to learn and unclear where to start

What makes it hard to grow or sustain your community?
Many participants found it hard to find time or funding to organize events and projects, and find it difficult to connect with mappers across a region. Here are a few quotes:

The distributed nature of the work can make it hard to reach out to people in the region. I feel we could havea better integrated tool to talk to local mappers directly.
Even in English, it’s difficult to find good resources like tutuorials for getting people started with mapping.
Volunteer time is in the cracks between ‘more serious’ work. So while it is easy to get new folks in the community it’s hard to get consistent investment over longer time periods.
Most members from the community prefer money-yielding activities and the idea of volunteer driven initiatives are not so welcomed.

Is there a gap between the ‘global OSM’ and your local reality? Where do you feel it?

Yes, in tagging practices and how to adapt to the local reality
There is a gap. People are drawn to local and immediate concerns by default and it’s hard to make people excited about global concerns and problems outside of conferences like SotM.
Core infrastructure needs work and innovation, and OSMF seems to struggle making progress. We need more transparency and openness to community input. Local communities need to shape our shared website.

What support do you wish the OSMF or the wider community provided but doesn’t?
Answers to this question mentioned funding, appreciation, clear leadership, and a more friendly community space. Here are additional quotes:

Make sure the core software project are active and support/discuss with the community
Technical & practical starting packages for community building
A mix of more formal and informal meetups, from “let’s hear a presentation about the person’s mapping project” to “let’s meet at a bar and hang out as friends”

What are ways you get your community together?
Answers to this question included virtual mappy hours, annual in person events/sotms, social media & chat groups for messages and announcements, and organized trainings. Here are a few quotes:

Online meetings, and make them useful for both new and experienced users so we all learn from each other
Daily communication via chat makes us feel close between bigger events
Doing projects with free participation w/ a co-work mentality

What ideas do you have to help grow and sustain OSM?
This final question brought in a lot of great ideas. You can see them all in the graphic below.

How to Participate in the Local Chapters & Communities Working Group

As you can see, the LCCC is for everyone to share ideas and meet fellow OSM enthusiasts from around the world. And we’d love for you to join us! Here are a few ways to get involved.

Join the upcoming in person LCCC at State of the Map in Paris, France on August 28
Join a monthly LCCWG meeting. Contact local@osmfoundation.org. We meet at 10amET /14:00UTC first Thursday of the month
Help plan the next virtual LCCC in March 2027 – and join the conversation!

Thanks, hope to see you soon!

OpenStreetMap Foundation and European projects: an invitation to collaborate

OpenStreetMap did not come out of a European research programme. It was not created as a policy instrument, nor was it designed from the top down to support institutional priorities.
Yet many of the ideas behind OpenStreetMap are now central to European strategies on data, digital transformation, innovation and technological sovereignty.
Openness, reuse, collaboration, trusted digital infrastructure, digital commons and technological autonomy are all important elements of current EU policy. They are also principles that have shaped OpenStreetMap for more than twenty years.
The OpenStreetMap Foundation is interested in opportunities to collaborate in EU-funded projects.
OpenStreetMap can make a practical contribution in areas such as digital commons and digital sovereignty.
This post is aimed mainly at people who are developing, or considering developing, EU project proposals involving OpenStreetMap Foundation.
OSMF is a small foundation supporting a very large global community.
It’s main role is to help ensure the sustainability of the OpenStreetMap project over time.
OSMF doesn’t create data on behalf of the community. OpenStreetMap is maintained and improved every day by thousands of people around the world.
To involve OSMF as a valuable partner in a European project, it is important to consider how the Foundation can contribute its experience in the governance of digital commons, open infrastructure, community-based models and long-term sustainability.
It can also help projects design activities that strengthen the OpenStreetMap ecosystem, rather than treating OpenStreetMap simply as a dataset to be used.
Licensing is another important aspect to consider from the beginning.
OpenStreetMap data is published under the ODbL, which reflects the project’s commitment to openness and share-alike principles. EU open data, however, is often published under licences such as CC BY.
This doesn’t necessarily prevent collaboration, but licence compatibility should be considered during the design of the project, not after the work has already started.
This is an important issue to interact with the OpenStreetMap ecosystem.

A practical invitation to project teams
OSMF encourages organisations developing EU project proposals to contact the Foundation at an early stage, ideally before the proposal is finalised.
A first approach should include:
– a short description of the project, why OpenStreetMap is relevant and what role is being proposed for OSMF
– an explanation of how the project would contribute back to the OpenStreetMap ecosystem, for example by strengthening infrastructure, supporting governance or contributing to the long-term sustainability
– a realistic collaboration model that reflects the size and capacity of a small non-profit organisation, including simpler funding arrangements, such as lump-sum contributions, where appropriate.
OSMF is open to collaboration with European projects that understand OpenStreetMap is not only as a map or a source of data, but as a community, a shared infrastructure and a living digital commons.
The invitation is simple: contact us, design the collaboration and work with us in a way that helps OpenStreetMap and its community remain strong over time.

State of the Map 2026: Call for Posters

Did you miss the call for general and OSM Science presentations? Fret not! You can still present your project and initiatives at State of the Map 2026! The Call for Posters for SotM 2026 is now open!

Your poster could show how well your community is mapped. It could be a new beautiful style or a map. It could be a community project or statistics, or a poster explaining and inviting people to OpenStreetMap. The important thing is that it is about OSM. We also welcome academic posters on research around OpenStreetMap data.

For inspiration, you can check out the SotM 2025 posters – https://2025.stateofthemap.org/posters/

Submission Requirements

The poster must be in A0 format (841×1189 mm).

The poster must be related to OpenStreetMap.

The poster must be open, innovative and transparent (no copying).

The poster must be an original work (individual, collective or institutional).

The poster must be submitted under an open license (CC-BY-SA 4.0 or CC0).

Maximum of two entries per person, team or institution.

You’re welcome to use generative AI/LLMs like ChatGPT to improve your abstract or text, but you must mention this in the “Notes” field of your submission. Please refrain from generating the whole Poster, images or large parts of it using AI/LLMs. It’s fine to use it to improve the wording, the grammar and to avoid spelling errors, or to create a translation of texts you have written yourself in your native language. We do prefer imperfect submissions with a human touch that make us look forward to an exciting and interesting poster. We do not want “perfect” and unnecessarily bloated submissions that all sound the same since they were generated by some tool.

How to participate

Upload your poster via https://files.osmfoundation.org/apps/forms/s/9CMfCCHJEBpyTdp8nGnLnY35 (No Emails are sent to you on submission. If anything is missing or your poster is shortlisted or not, you will hear from us)

Maximum file size: 30-40 MB

Format: PDF

Please provide a description of your poster in the upload form. For example, the background of the project or whatever you consider important to mention in the context of the poster – all that you would tell people if you show them your poster. We will publish this text together with the poster on the SotM website.

Timeline

Deadline: 31 July 2026 23:59:59 UTC +0

The SotM team hopes to shortlist up to 15 posters that will be published on our website and some other SotM channels under CC-BY-SA 4.0

The State of the Map Working Group

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2026 Board Face-to-Face (F2F) in Madrid, Spain

The OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) Board of Directors is excited to share this blog post with all of our community members. From June 6th-7th, members of the Board of Directors Craig Allan (Chair), Dani Waltersdorfer Jimenez (Secretary), Roland Olbricht (Treasurer), Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Laura Mugeha, Maurizio Napolitano, and facilitator Allen Gunn (also known as Gunner), met for two full working days in Madrid to discuss and tackle priorities and action items that need to be accomplished in the next 12 months. Amongst the discussed topics are a fundraising campaign, the “reviving” of the Communications Working Group (CWG), a new job posting which will be shared in the next coming months, the OSMF move to the European Union (EU), the launch of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy, and other topics. It is truly a pleasure to work with a team that is aligned on shared values including trust and respect, who are pushing for the success of a shared passion: the OpenStreetMap project. It must be noted however, that all of this could not have been possible without the leadership, patience, and tremendous organizational skills of Gunner who has been the OSMF facilitator for over 10 years. Thank you, Gunner!

What made this meeting particularly special is that we had the honor and pleasure of working from the TomTom offices in Madrid. We want to truly highlight our gratitude for TomTom for sharing their space with us, and most of all, we want to give a big shout-out to Priscilla Zachée for spending her weekend with us.

Face-to-face meetings are unlike others. For those who don’t know, us Board Members live in different countries all over the globe, so having the opportunity to work together, “ideate”, brainstorm, discuss tough topics, and enjoy our time together is quite treasured and important for us. And on the front of the importance of human connection, we promise to keep pushing forward the key that makes OpenStreetMap truly unique, unlike any other geospatial database out there: Our essence is our community.

We’d like to extend a thank you to all members of the community for your continued trust and passion for the OSM Project. We are always here for you should you have any questions or comments.

– The Board

OSMF at the Geospatial World Forum 2026

From 28th April to 1st May 2026, I attended the Geospatial World Forum (GWF) 2026, representing the OpenStreetMap Foundation. The GWF is an annual forum attended mostly by companies and public administration delegates in the geospatial domain. Henk Hoff, all the way back in 2013, was the last OSMF representative attending the GWF, when we received the award for “Geospatial Content Organisation of the year 2012”. So it was long overdue that OSM’s voice could be heard in this professional setting.

A stage with a lady speaking at the podium, and five more people on chairs. The speaking lady is focused on the big screen above the stage. — *Aarti Holla-Maini, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, speaking at the Opening Plenary.*
Own picture under CC-BY 4.0

This year’s theme was Sovereignty, Economy, Society. A theme greatly fitting to OSM’s mission: to collaboratively create open geospatial data, by everyone and for everyone. Data that allows reuse -including commercially-, and which runs on open source software. The forum included several days of talks and panels, and a tech and exhibition fair, where companies and governments could showcase their solutions and make business deals. OSM is integral to the solutions of many of the companies exhibiting, so directly talking with representatives of these organizations is relevant, to explain how important it is to contribute back to the ecosystem, so it can be kept sustainable over time.

Sovereignty, but not isolation, was one of the main ideas mentioned during the event. As we need to collaborate in an evolving and uncertain world, both politically and also technologically with the rise of AI agents, while keeping the infrastructure that powers so many use cases up and running, and stable for the years to come. OSM and the open-source software that powers it can be key to this, as shown by the recent decision by the French government to use a fork of OSM’s core infrastructure as its choice to renew the technology powering its Cadastral systems.

“OSM is more vibrant the more diverse its community is”, this is the main idea I shared at the panel I took part in. A panel that, paradogically, could and should have been more diverse. We need more, and more diverse, people and organizations to know how important it is to contribute to OSM and its ecosystem, so we can together build an accurate representation of our world. Contribution to the ecosystem does come in various forms: data, resources (people, money, time), community building, improving the technology that powers the project, and more. In that sense, communication goes a long way, and it is something that we are improving on at the Foundation, and we should keep aiming for. Thanks to Geospatial World for allowing us to participate in the forum, so the OpenStreetMap voice could be heard in these professional events.