We are excited to announce the call for nominees for the OpenStreetMap Awards 2025! The awards ceremony will take place this October at the State of the Map 2025 conference in Manila!
These community awards are nominated and chosen by the community. The OpenStreetMap Awards is a global recognition event that celebrates contributors from all corners of the OSM project – including mappers, developers, community organizers, writers, and everyone who makes OSM great. We need your help to identify the best and brightest of OpenStreetMap globally!
The awards are back with the following categories to recognize a wide range of contributions:
- Core Systems Award
- Innovation Award
- Influential Writing Award
- Greatness in Mapping Award
- Expanding the Community Award
- Team Achievement Award
- Ulf Möller Memorial Award
You can find more details about what each award represents on the wiki: OSM Awards
We are primarily looking for recent impactful contributions. Therefore, projects, works, and activities should have occurred or been announced between January 1st, 2024, and April 1st, 2025 to be eligible for most categories. The Ulf Möller Memorial Award is an exception; anyone is eligible regardless of when they were active in the project.
Think about the individuals, teams, or groups whose efforts have impressed you during this time. Have you seen fantastic mapping, innovative tools, inspiring community work, or influential writing? This is your chance to make their contributions visible to the entire world! You can even nominate yourself or your team if you believe your work deserves recognition.
Ready to nominate? It’s quick and easy!
Visit the official OSM Awards website to add your nominees: SotM Nominations
The call for nominees will close on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025.
Please make sure to add your nominations before the deadline. The more nominees we receive, the better we can represent the breadth and depth of amazing work happening in OpenStreetMap, and the more exciting the final voting and ceremony will be.
Keep the OpenStreetMap Awards in mind and nominate those who deserve recognition today!
The State of the Map Working Group
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. 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.
