weeklyOSM 777

05/06/2025-11/06/2025

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[1] OpenStreetMap Japan community hosted a mapping party in Kamiooka, Yokohama City | © Japanese OpenStreetMap Contributors.

About us

A weeklyOSM reader recently suggested an improvement to the event listings in the OpenStreetMap calendar, noting that only the city name was displayed instead of the full event location. In response to this feedback, we have implemented a new feature, and as of issue #776, the calendar now includes the full event location, provided it is specified in the OSM calendar. The improvement was done, as always, by TheFive, who is the creator and development leader of the OpenStreetMap Blog Collector, our CMS.

Mapping

Mateusz Konieczny is proposing a mechanical edit to retag building=building as building=yes.
A proposal to deprecate the socket:tesla_supercharger=* and socket:tesla_destination=* tags is currently open for voting until 23:59 UTC Wednesday 25 June.

Community

^[1] The OpenStreetMap Japan community hosted ► a mapping party in Kamiooka, Yokohama City, on Saturday 24 May. Equipped with Field Papers for on-site surveying and a 3D-printed terrain model from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. Participants set out to explore the area’s distinctive topography, including its cliffs and sloping landscapes.
Anne-Karoline Distel recently journeyed along the Barrow Navigation, an inland waterway system in Ireland centred around the River Barrow, capturing water-level imagery with a GoPro to document the route and upload the visuals to Mapillary and Panoramax.
In episode 177 of the Deep Dive podcast Robin Boldt, founder of the motorcycle-focused navigation app Kurviger, discussed how the platform leverages GraphHopper and OpenStreetMap to deliver highly personalised route planning.
Jiri Podhorecky explained ► both the historical and modern features shaping the Meadows of South Bohemia, highlighting old drainage ditches, land reclamation, and newly established ponds. These elements reflect two contrasting trends, firstly the historical drive to drain wet meadows for intensive agriculture, and now a growing effort to restore natural water retention through the creation of new ponds and wetlands and the revitalisation of old ditches to boost biodiversity and improve the landscape’s resilience. Jiri also presented the relevant OpenStreetMap tags for documenting these features.
Secarateratur used ► BRouter and OpenStreetMap road network data to analyse and compare several alternative walking routes.

OpenStreetMap Foundation

Nominations for the 2025 OpenStreetMap Awards are now open and can be submitted, via the official OSM Awards website, until Wednesday 23 July.

Local chapter news

The Swiss OpenStreetMap community has officially launched its presence on LinkedIn, marking a new step in its outreach and engagement efforts.

Events

State of the Map 2025, to be hosted in Manila in October, now has tickets available for purchase.

Maps

Vespucci reported that Microsoft plans to discontinue its Bing Maps services by the end of June 2025 (except iD editor).

Software

Andrii Holovin has developed the OSM Diff State Finder, a web-based tool that allows users to locate OpenStreetMap replication state files by timestamp. Peter Körner has also built a similar application.
OpenStreetMap US Tech Lead Quincy Morgan introduced Layercake, a set of thematic extracts (buildings, transportation, etc.) from OpenStreetMap data in a cloud-native file format that is easy to use with software ranging from DuckDB to QGIS.
You can see an web map about streets in Belém (Pará, Brazil) made with JavaScript, OSM, and Leaflet.

Programming

Mapbox has launched mcp-server, a Node.js-based implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects AI language model agents to Mapbox’s APIs. This enables them to access Mapbox’s spatial intelligence, understand and reason about locations, navigate the physical world, and leverage geospatial data.
vbrene is currently developing a JOSM plugin aimed at simplifying the tagging of bicycle and pedestrian paths in Germany and is now seeking input on some tagging inconsistencies in the wiki.

Releases

CoMaps is being rapidly developed further. A new APK for Android was released on 10 June (f-droid). The group is still looking for iOS developers.
LastUpdated version 1.9 has been released.
The Android app osm2gmaps, which converts links from apps like Organic Maps and OSMAnd to proprietary map formats, has just released version 0.5.19.

Did you know that …

… you can generate a Public Transport Line Diagram using the Overpass API?
… Walter Nordmann’s ‘Wambacher’s OSM software list’ is a constantly updated compilation of the many software products that are important in the OSM environment and is indispensable for an OSM newcomer?

Other “geo” things

Students from the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University have conducted a study to examine how residents perceive urban heat in the city’s historic old town. Using the Sketch Map Tool, a participatory offline mapping method, the team collected data from 19 local participants who marked perceived hot spots in red and cool areas in blue on printed maps, which were then digitised, georeferenced, and analysed to understand spatial variations in thermal perception.
Der Standard’s Michael Windisch reported that following the recent acquisition of route planner app Komoot, 75 percent of the company’s staff have been laid off, with further cuts expected. In a video message released at the end of May, the departing team bid farewell and hinted at future plans to build ‘something even bigger, even better’, suggesting the possible launch of a competing product.
The QGIS for hydrological applications course, developed by Hans van der Kwast and Kurt Menke, was translated into Portuguese by Hermínio Sabino and is the basis of the self-learning platform, which is publicly accessible. The content has also been translated into French and Spanish .
The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), through the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal), maintains the Repositório Científico da CPLP, available ► publicly and with more than two million records, including articles about OpenStreetMap.
Kefiijrw detailed the recent Yandex Maps redesign, highlighting significant changes to road visuals, which now feature detailed markings and have shifted from the familiar yellow to grey, reflecting a move toward greater realism over abstraction.

Upcoming Events

Country	Where	Venue	What	Online	When
	Tours	Université de Tours, Campus des 2 Lions-Portalis	State of the Map France 2025		2025-06-13 – 2025-06-15
	Besançon	Le 97	Apér’OSM Bourgogne-Franche-Comté		2025-06-14
		Tasarım Atölyesi Kadıköy	Using OpenStreetMap API with Laravel – Laravel İstanbul Meetup		2025-06-15
	Jalpaiguri	Kadamtala More (towards Beguntari)	3rd OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party		2025-06-15
	Grenoble	La Turbine Coop	Atelier de juin du groupe local de Grenoble		2025-06-16
			Missing Maps London: (Online) Mid-Month Mapathon [eng]		2025-06-17
	Bonn	Dotty’s	188. OSM-Stammtisch Bonn		2025-06-17
		Online	Lüneburger Mappertreffen	✓	2025-06-17
			Missing Maps – DRK & MSF Online Mapathon		2025-06-18
	Karlsruhe	Chiang Mai	Stammtisch Karlsruhe		2025-06-18
		online	Meeting of the Catalan Association of the OSM	✓	2025-06-18
	Boston	Boston, Massachusetts, US	State of the Map US		2025-06-19 – 2025-06-21
		France Service Pays des Ecrins	Atelier cartopartie – Pays des Ecrins		2025-06-19
	Cuenca	Online	Mappy Hour OSM España	✓	2025-06-19
	Verona	311 Verona, Verona	MERGE-it 2025		2025-06-20 – 2025-06-22
	Potsdam	freiLand – machBar (Haus 5)	Jugendhackt: OpenStreetMap – die Welt für alle auffindbar machen (12–18 Jahre)		2025-06-20
	Navi Mumbai	Remiges Technologies, Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai	OpenStreetMap workshop at FOSS Meetup Mumbai		2025-06-21
bi	Rumonge	Online	OSM Africa June 2025 Mapathon – Map Burundi	✓	2025-06-21
	Siliguri	Kanchenjunga Stadium	4th OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party		2025-06-22
	Mumbai Suburban	Chembur	3rd OpenStreetMap Mumbai Mapping Party		2025-06-22
	Hannover	Kuriosum	OSM-Stammtisch Hannover		2025-06-23
	Montréal	Parc Angrignon	Parc Angrignon Mapathon		2025-06-24
	London	UCL, Gower Street, Chadwick Building Room G04	London Climate Action Week Mapathon		2025-06-24
	San Jose	Online	South Bay Map Night	✓	2025-06-25
	Vogtei	Online BigBlueButton	OSM Radinfra-Mapathon #2		2025-06-24
		Office de tourisme du Seignanx	Rencontre groupe local Mapadour		2025-06-25
	Amsterdam	TomTom HQ	Maptime Amsterdam: Summertime Meetup		2025-06-25
	London	Parcel Yard pub	London pub meet-up		2025-06-25
			[Online] OpenStreetMap Foundation board of Directors – public videomeeting		2025-06-26
	Düsseldorf	Online bei https://meet.jit.si/OSM-DUS-2025	Düsseldorfer OpenStreetMap-Treffen (online)		2025-06-27
		Shahdara शाहदरा	18th OpenStreetMap Delhi Mapping Meetup 18वीं ओपनस्ट्रीटमैप दिल्ली मैपिंग मीटअप		2025-06-29