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| 2023 | |
| 9 Dec | The OpenStreetMap Foundation's Annual General Meeting and the deadline for voting for the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board. |
| 8 Dec | FOSSGIS e.V. commits to annual support of OpenStreetMap. |
| 25 Nov | The CC-0 Advantage: How the EU Open Data Directive can benefit from simplified licensing for geodata. |
| 25 Oct | Microsoft pledges $150,000 to support OpenStreetMap. |
| 12 Oct | Learn about Local Chapters: what they are, what they do, and how you can get involved. |
| 24 Sep | New map style available on OpenStreetMap.org: Tracestrack Topo → Try. See featured tile layers. |
| 8 Sep | OpenStreetMap Foundation announces new membership guidelines for Corporate Sponsorship. |
| 1 Sep | Learn about the OpenStreetMap Foundation board elections. |
| 18 Aug | OpenStreetMap Foundation publishes Strategic Plan V.2 (see weeklyOSM 683) |
| 15 Jan | The wiki was updated to MediaWiki 1.39. |
| 2022 | |
| 3 Aug | The wiki's configuration has been updated so that pages load faster, especially those with many images. |
| 2 Aug | Tag usage statistics in infoboxes are now displayed in the correct language and number format according to your interface language setting (technical details, contribute a translation). |
| 19 May | When you search for or follow a link to a key or tag description page that does not exist, an infobox now shows any available details from the data item associated with the key or tag. If it is a compound key, each part of the key is described automatically based on data items. |
| 11 May | New mobile editor for iOS and Android: Every Door. |
| 1 May | OSMF employs Grant Slater as Senior Site Reliability Engineer |
| 21 Mar | OSMF launches a new forum at community.openstreetmap.org. |
| 19 Feb | SOTM organizers announce Call for Logo designs. |
| 16 Feb | SOTM 2022 conference has been announced for August 19-21 in Firenze, Italy. |
| 2021 | |
| 19 Sep | Two optional wiki gadgets for enhancing discussion pages, 1.CommentsInLocalTime and 2.ConvenientDiscussions have been installed. You can enable them in your user preferences. |
| 8 Apr | Read about ideas for mapping for Earth Day and the International Day of Human Space Flight, both in April. |
| 5 Apr | The Local Chapters and Communities Working Group is looking for volunteer moderators. |
| 2 Apr | The academic track at the State of the Map 2021 is accepting abstracts. |
| 9 Mar | Call for talks, workshops and panels at the online State of the Map 2021. |
| 7 Mar | Announcing the State of the Map logo and website. |
| 25 Feb | The 100,000,000th changeset is created. |
| 16 Jan to 14 Feb |
OpenStreetMap Foundation 2021 survey has ended. Results are posted to the OSMF wiki. |
| 2020 | |
| 20 Aug | Mappers can now become an Associate member of OpenStreetMap Foundation at no cost by applying for Active Contributor Membership. A minimum 42 days of editing are required in the last 365 calendar days. |
| 10 Jul | ÖPNVKarte becomes a new featured tile layer on openstreetmap.org. |
| 4 Jul | State of the Map 2020 conference is held online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2019 | |
| 3 Aug | Most pages on this wiki load faster following a redesign of the language bar. Please report any problems on the language bar's talk page. |
| 12 Jun | The events calendar has been streamlined for easier editing. See Template:Calendar for updated instructions. |
| 11 Apr | The OSM Foundation is now an affiliate member of the Open Source Initiative. |
| 23 Mar | OSM wins the 2018 Free Software Foundation award, adding another trophy to our collection. |
| 23 Jan | Wiki pages containing outdated but historically relevant information can be marked with the templates {{Historic artifact start}} and {{Historic artifact end}}. |
| 10 Jan | Data Working Group announces that the Organised Editing Guidelines have been officially put online. (More context on the OSMF blog.) |
| 2018 | |
| 30 Aug | OpenStreetMap condemns recent anti-semitic vandalism, which recently surfaced on the Snapchat app. |
| 4 Jan | OpenStreetMap is participating in Google Summer of Code 2018. |
| 3 Jan | FOSSGIS e.V. (Germany) is now formally established as a foundation local chapter. |
| 2017 | |
| 30 Dec | OpenStreetMap France is now formally established as a foundation local chapter. |
| 12 Nov | OpenStreetMap United Kingdom is now formally established as a foundation local chapter. |
| 30 May | New OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher tool. |
| 25 May | Over one million notes have been created since the introduction of the feature in 2013. |
| 4 May | The migration of multipolygon relations to modern mapping standards, part of a broader effort to clean up area geometries in OSM, has been completed. |
| 11 Apr | Community survey for the State of the Map 2017 program. |
| 27 Feb | OpenStreetMap is participating in Google Summer of Code 2017. |
| 2016 | |
| 22 Oct | The OpenStreetMap Forum (forum.openstreetmap.org) has been moved to a new server. |
| 10 Jul | A node with the id 232 is created. Support for 64-bit identifiers has become a necessity for software working with OSM. |
| 17 Jun | The Collective Database Guideline is approved by the OSMF board. |
| 2015 | |
| 30 Oct | New road style. Major changes to improve legibility and consistency of roads in the cartography of the Standard map style on openstreetmap.org.) |
| 24 Jun | Fundraising target reached. Thank you! (you can still donate) |
| 6 Jun | Launching Fundraising drive 2015 |
| 25 Apr | Humanitarian OpenStreetMappers respond to the 2015 Nepal earthquake. |
| 16 Feb | Routing feature was enabled on main website openstreetmap.org, based on Open Source Routing Machine, GraphHopper and MapQuest Routing API |
| 2014 | |
| 06 Oct | WeeklyOSM was relaunched: a weekly news collection with everything about OSM, based on German Wochennotiz. WeeklyOSM is available there in English, Spanish, Romanian, Japanese and Türkish |
| 18 Sep | OSM2World takes first place in Thomas-Krenn open source awards |
| 14 Nov | GeoGO Presentation during NFB Texas Convention in Austin, Texas USA to support CapMac's GeoGO-OSM Accessibility Project |
| 9 Aug | Celebrations for the tenth anniversary of OpenStreetMap take place around the world |
| 28 Jun | The weekly notes will be stopped after 4years, if there is nobody willing to continue the translation from DE. |
| 28 Jun | The wiki main page was redesigned to be lighter and strictly use-case oriented, and we introduce navigation pages. |
| 12 Jun. | After State Of The Map Europe 2014 has ended, a lot of video footage is available from its wiki page. |
| 8 Jun | OSM contributors can now add their ORCID identifier to their user page on this wiki, using {{User ORCID}}. |
| 5 Jun | Mapbox releases Mapbox GL, a framework for client-side rendered vector maps on iOS using OpenStreetMap data. |
| Now | 2014 West Africa Ebola Response |
| 5 May | New release of Mapsforge 0.4.0 (offline vector map rendering framework) |
| 9 Apr | Imagery from DigitalGlobe now available for use via mapbox [1] |
| 4 Apr | A new editor is released, Level0. |
| 26 Mar | OSM wins the FSFE's Document Freedom Award. |
| 24 Mar | HOT is coordinating mapping efforts for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. You can help! |
| 16 Feb | The wiki reaches 1,000,000 page edits. |
| 11 Feb | Encryption (SSL) has been enabled to all of the openstreetmap.org website, thereby enhancing the privacy of its users. |
| 2013 | |
| 7 Dec | ScalableMaps [2] now offers over 300 OSM- and NaturalEarth-based editable vector maps in PDF and Adobe Illustrator formats. |
| 2 Dec | The main website is completely redesigned. |
| 18 Nov | We're using the Typhoon Haiyan wiki page to coordinate crisis response mapping. You can help! |
| 13 Aug | Zoom level 19 added for the standard layer on the openstreetmap.org website. |
| 19 Jul | New map controls have gone live on openstreetmap.org |
| 7 May | New server and fund raising drive 2013 |
| 7 May | The newly developed online editor iD has been integrated as a tool on the openstreetmap.org website. |
| 23 Apr | You can now leave Notes on the openstreetmap.org map ! |
| 1 Apr | iD editor Beta 1 is released |
| 31 Mar | Imagery Offset Database is up |
| 14 Feb | map1.eu [3] alpha version (all-purpose map of Europe) has been released |
| 9 Feb | Node id numbers have increased to now require 64-bit Identifiers |
| 31 Jan | new domain: OSM Turkey https://openstreetmap.org.tr |
| 29 Jan | iD editor alpha version released |
| 8 Jan | New template and category for Wikipedians who map |
| 6 Jan | One million registered users |
| 2012 | |
| 18 Dec | State Of The Map 2013/Call for venues open |
| 6 Nov | Start your local party for Operation cowboy |
| 2 Oct | New release of the OSM editor Vespucci 0.8 for Android devices |
| 12 Sep | OpenStreetMap data is now available under the Open Database License. copyright and license. Please help with Remapping |
| 8 Sep | New Foundation board members elected |
| 18 Aug | OpenStreetMap 8th Anniversary Birthday party worldwide celebrations |
| 31 Jul | Registration for SOTM US in Portland (Oct 13-14) now open |
| 28 Jul | Officially released Maperitive v2. (What's new) |
| 25 Jul | Automated redactions complete |
| 11 Jul | License redaction begins (Follow bot process) |
| 25 Jun | A huge amount of new satellite imagery was added to Bing which can be traced from in OpenStreetMap. See also Bing Blog |
| 12 Jun | New release of the editor Merkaartor 0.18.1 |
| 23 May | Launch of http://openstreetmapdata.com where you can download selected shapefiles for coastlines or similar, derived from OSM data. See also blog post by Jochen Topf. |
| 3 May | Apple now attributes OSM in iPhoto, see [4] and [5] |
| 19 Apr | New version of the map rendering web service Maposmatic available, see also [6] |
| 13 Apr | MapFactor Navigator Free is available for Android devices via Google Play. |
| 4 Apr | Edits enabled again. License change work ongoing |
| 1 Apr | New planet.gpx download of all GPS points |
| 27 Mar | Announcement of plans for the license change work |
| 20 Mar | Esri donation to OSMF |
| 13 Mar | Mar 2012 DB server downtime planned for Tuesday 20th |
| 12 Mar | New Australian Geographic Reference Image available for mapping |
| 13 Feb | Leaflet 0.3 released |
| 28 Jan | Garmin converter tool mkgmap now builds an address search index |
| 27 Jan | "Night of the living maps" is global mapping event planned for Feb 7th |
| 17 Jan | Report of Google IP address being used to vandalise OSM data |
| 13 Jan | Bored of Google Maps? switch2osm |
| 3 Jan | State Of The Map 2012 will be in Tokyo [7] |
| 2011 | |
| 24 Dec | Funding target reached. Mappy Christmas! |
| 01 Dec | New License Change View on OSM Inspector |
| 29 Nov | We have half a million users! |
| 29 Nov | Call for papers for FOSSGIS and OpenStreetMap-conference is open |
| 25 Nov | openstreetmap.org front page now features new layers |
| 19 Nov | openstreetmap.de and openstreetmap.ru sites have a new look |
| 16 Nov | 1st April 2012 is the target date for license change |
| 12 Nov | OpenStreetBrowser ([8]) version 2.1 released. |
| 25 Oct | KeepRight ([9]) now validates website/url tags. |
| 21 Oct | "Look and Listen Map" & "Guide Me" win Torsten Brand Prize |
| 13 Oct | Join in with the "Big baseball project" |
| 4 Oct | Blocked applications to protect the servers |
| 3 Oct | US local chapter elected a board |
| 19 Sep | New server 'Zark' will be used for OWL |
| 13 Sep | Yahoo! Aerial Imagery is no longer available. |
| 11 Sep | OpenLayers 2.11 released |
| 11 Sep | New board members elected |
| 11 Sep | State Of The Map 2011 is winding up in Denver. |
| 6 Sep | New Mailing list rails-dev created [10] |
| 26 Aug | Board elections and other OSMF changes |
| 18 Aug | Nominations open for foundation board elections. 4 seats available [11] |
| 08 Aug | Help preparing for the license change |
| 30 Jul | SOTMEU presentation videos are available |
| 28 Jul | Mapweaver - successor of mapgen.pl |
| 25 Jul | Project of the week looking for new maintainers |
| 20 Jul | Lets get ready for umble! OSMFight |
| 13 Jul | Release of OpenStreetBrowser 2.0 |
| 6 Jul | Thanks to all the Wimbledon tennis champions |
| 5 Jul | Osmitter lets you contribute to OSM via twitter |
| 4 Jul | Ordnance Survey accept ODbL for their OS OpenData |
| 29 Jun | It's Wimbledon week. Project of the week is mapping tennis courts |
| 23 Jun | Planned downtime: Servers/June 2011 Maintenance Thu 23rd (Completed) |
| 19 Jun | Phase 4 of the ODbL licence change has started |
| 12 Jun | You can now login to OpenStreetMap using OpenID |
| 12 Jun | New video tutorials for beginners showing Potlatch 2 |
| 1 Jun | Geofabrik now provide U.S. state extracts [12] |
| 25 May | Education Project of the month starting with primary & secondary schools |
| 23 May | We now have more than 400,000 registered users |
| 22 May | new release of GpsMid 0.7.5 (you can search for house numbers now) |
| 21 May | Statistics of clicks on integrated in Wikipedia OpenStreetMap map was published. |
| 20 May | 1 000 000 Relations in the database |
| 16 May | Project OSRM has a new routing demo website |
| 11 May | new Mapquest static image API |
| 9 May | A new release Maperitive with improved SVG export and line offsetting. |
| 9 May | Tile server upgrade |
| 6 May | New Changeset display |
| 29 Apr | We have a new logo! (blog post) |
| 3 Apr | Switched to Potlatch 2 for the 'edit' tab default [13] |
| 31 Mar | We are looking for representative Press images (high res, PD, full attr.) |
| 30 Mar | Project of the month: Food month |
| 23 Mar | New Community Updates |
| 15 Mar | Help crisismapping Japan |
| 7 Mar | ForeverMap has been released for Android devices |
| 4 Mar | Milestone: 1 Billion Nodes in the Database |
| 2 Mar | Hikingbook.pl creates hiking books |
| 25 Feb | Maperitive now supports SRTM1 and custom DEMs. |
| 23 Feb | Project of the month: Tunnels and Bridges |
| 17 Feb | New Community Updates |
| 16 Feb | The 100.000.000th way |
| 14 Feb | A map looking for OSM User Groups [14] |
| 14 Feb | A map looking for OSM User Groups [15] |
| 11 Feb | Merkaartor bugfix release: 0.17.2. |
| 09 Feb | Project of the week : Florists |
| 09 Feb | New Community Updates |
| 06 Feb | Merkaartor bugfix release: 0.17.1. |
| 06 Feb | OpenDEM launched, collecting a free digital elevation model |
| 03 Feb | Bing road detect API announced |
| 02 Feb | New Community Updates |
| 27 Jan | New Community Updates |
| 26 Jan | Project of the month : Buildings |
| 26 Jan | Donation to OSMF by Mapquest/AOL |
| 25 Jan | HOT has a new logo |
| 24 Jan | 350 000 users |
| 22 Jan | New Project of the week: Banks and ATMs |
| 21 Jan | Maperitive can now read PBF files and has better right-to-left scripts support. |
| 20 Jan | New Community Updates |
| 18 Jan | New release of GpsMid 0.7.1 |
| 13 Jan | Fugro sponsors 40 cm aerial imagery of whole Denmark |
| 12 Jan | New Community Updates |
| 05 Jan | New major release of Maperitive with scripting support for generating & uploading Web maps. |
| 2010 | |
| 31 Dec | "JOSM tested" now includes imagery built in. |
| 30 Dec | Route Manager and History Viewer are online behind new URLs ([16] [17]) |
| 26 Dec | Merkaartor 0.17.0 has been released. |
| 21 Dec | OpenStreetBugs is now available via http://osmbugs.org/ shortcut. More details here. |
| 17 Dec | MapQuest Launches OpenStreetMap-Powered Mapping Service In The US |
| 08 Dec | Russian satellite imagery project kosmosnimki.ru overlays custom-rendered OSM map of Belarus (google translate) |
| 06 Dec | Humanitarian OSM Team Logo design competition launched |
| 06 Dec | Two OSM projects and 6 other projects will be sponsored by German Wikimedia Competition WissensWert |
| 03 Dec | OffMaps is "App of the day". |
| 02 Dec | New Bing imagery now available in Potlatch 2 and JOSM |
| 02 Dec | New Project of the week: Your train station |
| 29 Nov | Online Editor Potlatch 2 is now available on OpenStreetMap.org |
| 28 Nov | New Community Updates |
| 24 Nov | New Project of the month: Wheelchair Accessibility |
| 22 Nov | The 1.000.000.000. node! |
| 15 Nov | New Community Updates |
| 23 Nov | Bing to provide their aerial imagery to OSM [18] |
| 17 Nov | New Project of the week: Wanna Bet? |
| 14 Nov | New unified Scientific corner: Research |
| 04 Nov | New Project of the week: Headache? |
| 25–31 Oct. | New Community Updates |
| 28 Oct | New Project of the month: Stay a While |
| 24 Oct | Software lists replaced |
| 26 Oct | Copies Google from OSM? Discussed at the last OSMF Working Group Minutes |
| 21 Oct | Denver will be host to State Of The Map 2011 [19] |
| 21 Oct | MapQuest launch new Nominatim service, Potlatch 2 deployment and restored TIGER Edited Map [20] |
| 17 Oct | New release of the often mentioned RouteConverter 2.0 |
| 16 Oct | Osmosis v0.37 released (new PBF support) [21] |
| 14 Oct | New release of LuckyGPS 0.74 |
| 05 Oct | New offline map display and routing for iPhone: ForeverMap |
| 05 Oct | New tag listing/stats website: Taginfo |
| 04 Oct | Spot Image give the permission to use the coverage of France for 6 months |
| 28 Sep | Two English OSM books now available |
| 25 Sep | New Release of NaviComputer 0.95 (Map Display and navigation on Windows Mobile) |
| 11 Sep | 300000 OSM contributors and counting |
| 9 Sep | New release of NaviPOWM 0.2.5 |
| 9 Sep | Call for bids to host State Of The Map 2011 |
| 1 Sep | Waze.com partner apologizes for cloned OSM content |
| 22 Aug | Merkaartor 0.16.3 has been released. |
| 16 Aug | Retirement of gazetteer.openstreetmap.org announced. |
| 12 Aug | Existing contributors are now asked to accept the new contributor terms |
| 8 Aug | Transit Database for OpenStreetMap Routing changed from beta to final stage |
| 2 Aug | Microsoft launch an OpenStreetMap Mapnik layer on Bing Maps. |
| 25 Jul | Maperitive now has a map tile generator and hypsometric tinting function (more). |
| 11 Jul | SotM is all over! See State Of The Map 2010 page for session details. |
| 10 Jul | Announced: Potlatch 2 public alpha testing |
| 10 Jul | Announced: help.openstreetmap.org for Q&A. |
| 7 Jul | Maperitive now exports map bitmaps with KML and OziExplorer MAP sidecar files. |
| 5 Jul | First version of ArcGIS Editor for OSM released |
| 1–3 Jul. | July 2010 DB Upgrade. Server downtime for scheduled maintenance from 1st to 3rd July |
| 1 Jul | There are six candidates applying for three chairs in the OSMF board. |
| 30 Jun | NaviComputer [22] 0.94 released for WindowsMobile |
| 30 Jun | Merkaartor has now settled in a new home: http://merkaartor.be |
| 26 Jun | Maperitive, a desktop map rendering application, can now do SVG exports |
| 20 Jun | Vespucci 0.6.5 released (OSM editor for Android) |
| 13 Jun | Foundation/AGM10 meeting & election announced |
| 13 Jun | Merkaartor 0.16.1 has been released. |
| 11 May | New OpenStreetMap users have to sign up to the CC-BY-SA / ODbL contributor terms. |
| 20 Apr | Hit 250.000 users See here |
| 16 Apr | New Nokia Sportstracker version enhanced with the power of OpenStreetMap. |
| 14 Apr | mapgen.pl version 1.00 released. lots of new features... |
| 1 Apr | Ordnance Survey Opendata releases (UK) |
| 22 Mar | Merkaartor updated to 0.15.3. |
| 18 Mar | OSM accepted for Google Summer of Code |
| 28 Feb | Merkaartor 0.15 released. |
| 26 Feb | Usability improvements for osm.org? Tell us! |
| 26 Feb | Mapping Bolivia, presented during the last two "State of the Map...", is already walking. The first exploratory trip fri. Feb.26 "The project's blog". |
| 24 Feb | BBC News reports on OpenStreetMap Haiti mapping "The volunteer mappers who helped Haiiti" |
| 12 Feb | iPhone Application True Maps released. It features offline searches and routing. |
| 9 Feb | New "Project of the week" launched |
| 2 Feb | mapgen.pl new Perl renderer... |
| 23 Jan | OpenLinkMap |
| 23 Jan | GpsMid 0.6 map application for mobile phone released |
| 16 Jan | First Independent Traffic Congestion Services Test in Russia - OpenStreetMap Takes The Second Place |
| 13 Jan | Huge OSM push for better data in Haiti following the devastating earthquake - join the effort |
| 3 Jan | OpenStreetMap reaches 200 000 user accounts. Happy New Year! |
| 2009 | |
| 30 Dec | The navigation app AndNav2 for Android is now Opensource http://www.andnav.org |
| 27 Dec | Results of OSMF members vote on Open Database License proposal announced |
| 23 Dec | OSM Editor Merkaartor 0.15 available |
| 19 Dec | OSMtracker 0.10.0 released. |
| 14 Dec | Santiagos Metropolitan Regional Government (Gobierno Regional Metropolitano de Santiago) (Chile) granted access to their Schools, Hospitals, Landuse, Natural Reserves and Municipal Boundaries shapefiles. Members of the local community are working to convert and import them. |
| 9 Dec | UK post code co-ordinate data likely to be freed in April 2010 |
| 6 Dec | OSMF license change vote has started; unofficial community survey at http://doodle.com/feqszqirqqxi4r7w |
| 3 Dec | ScanEx grant access to satellite imagery in Russia. Now you can use it in JOSM & Potlatch. |
| 30 Nov | Mapzen Beta now available |
| 23 Nov | New version 1.3 of Potlatch released with zooming up to level 23 |
| 17 Nov | Then you win: Ordnance Survey to open data in the U.K. |
| 10 Nov | NearMap PhotoMaps high resolution up to date CC-BY-SA aerial photography now available for tracing for selected Australian capital cities. |
| 1 Nov | The data checking tool Keep Right ([23]) is available for the whole planet. Make OSM routable! |
| 18 Oct | New version of GroundTruth (1.6): now supports sea polygons-filling and custom background color (more info). |
| 9 Oct | FOSSGIS hosts three sponsored servers for OSM |
| 8 Oct | SotM10 call for venues is now open |
| 1 Oct | More accuracy for GPS in Europe with start of EGNOS on Oct. 1st |
| 28 Sep | flickr adds special 'machine tag' support for OpenStreetMap |
| 20 Sep | New map renderer MapSurfer.NET (terrain map, contour lines, 3D buildings and more). www.mapsurfer.net |
| 17 Sep | New release of NaviPOWM 0.2.3 |
| 18 Sep | Testing version of wheelchair routing service is online for German city of Bonn. |
| 12 Sep | The OpenStreetMap community petitions Google to resolve the legal ambiguity of tracing from Google's aerial imagery. |
| 9 Sep | Monopoly City Streets opens to surprise and initial licensing uncertainty from the OpenStreetMap community. The Monopoly City Streets' website struggles with the initial surge in interest. |
| 31 Aug | German City of Rostock has all streets completed and houses with heights. 3D here |
| 22 Aug | New Foundation Board elected |
| 17 Aug | The NaPTAN Import added bus stops throughout London |
| 16 Aug | First blind contributor uploads tracks in Finland. See OSM for the blind for details. |
| 12 Aug | Merkaartor 0.14 released. |
| 10 Aug | Find duplicate ways with Waydupes.pl. Reports (for Germany) can be found here Way dupe check reports. |
| 9 Aug | German City of Dortmund is declared to have all streets completed. |
| 30 Jul | British town of Crawley and German town of Bad Oeynhausen are declared to have all streets completed. |
| 28 Jul | Foundation/AGM09 announced, including elections (join today!) |
| 28 Jul | OSMtracker 0.8.1 released. |
| 24 Jul | Two ways to display distances in maps: Distance maps and Distancemap.pl |
| 12 Jul | State Of The Map 2009 is over. Thanks to all the organisers! |
| 5 Jul | New version of Kosmos: works with NASA's new SRTM server, uses IBF format for contours (more info). |
| 29 Jun | ODbL 1.0 launched |
| 29 Jun | German city Essen is declared to have all streets completed. |
| 28 Jun | New version of GroundTruth: works with the NASA's new SRTM server (more info). |
| 26 Jun | We now support short links |
| 23 Jun | German city Aachen is declared to have all streets completed. |
| 21 Jun | New release of Navit 0.1.1 |
| 11 Jun | Braille true type font for OSM released, see OSM for the blind. |
| 4 Jun | walking-papers.org launched. A service for paper-based mapping |
| 3 Jun | OSM website now in several languages |
| 27 May | Amenity Editor, a new simple POI editing system, made public. |
| 27 May | New Boundaries.pl script to extract (simplified, resized) *.poly files for boundaries out of osm files. |
| 26 May | Press release: Volunteer Mapper Flies Out to Antigua |
| 21 May | Potlatch 1.0 released with new 'edit with save' features and built-in help |
| 20 May | GroundTruth v1.5 has been released. It now includes "SRTM to OSM" functionality. |
| 16 May | German city Oldenburg declared to be complete in OSM. |
| 12 May | first known tactile map based on OSM data published. |
| 29 Apr | API 0.6 compatible version of mumpot 0.5 released (including upload support) |
| 26 Apr | Bug fix version of Merkaartor 0.13.2 released |
| 21 Apr | New API went live after a year of development. |
| 20 Apr | Six OSM projects accepted for Google Summer of Code |
| 20 Apr | Final report on Bavarian aerial imagery published (in German) |
| 4 Apr | Relation Check and Relation Diff. New Tools for quality assurance of relations. |
| 28 Mar | Support for country-specific traffic-rules in Traveling Salesman. |
| 23 Mar | German city Brunswik declared to be complete in OSM. |
| 18 Mar | OpenStreetMap accepted for Google Summer of Code 2009 |
| 17 Mar | Wikimedia Germany starts a project for integration of OSM maps in Wikipedia |
| 17 Mar | Number of (registered) users passed 100.000 (OpenStreetMap stats report & Graphical Stats) |
| 16 Mar | Call for Papers for State Of The Map 2009 is now open |
| 16 Mar | New version of Merkaartor 0.13 released |
| 14 Mar | House numbers supported in Traveling Salesman navigator |
| 5 Mar | OpenStreetMap wins two Linux New Media Awards |
| 27 Feb | New license has been published, license text comments may be submitted until March 20 (announcement) |
| 25 Feb | Radio Bremen's news website is using Openstreetmap (in German, sample article) |
| 12 Feb | End of donation drive. £ 16,222 (~ € 18,100) was raised in one week. |
| 9 Feb | Mapnik now usually is updated hourly (rather than weekly). |
| 5 Feb | Start of donation drive to buy a new faster, bigger server for OpenStreetMap. |
| 4 Feb | The new OSMbin file-format version 1.0 is published. |
| 1 Feb | All I., II. and III. class roads in Czech republic are in OSM. See graph of mapping and unmapped czech roads. |
| 26 Jan | GroundTruth, a new mapmaking tool for Garmins, released |
| 25 Jan | Riding and hiking map available for selected German regions. |
| 22 Jan | OSM: Up-to-Date announced: a bookmarklet which will draw the current state of the database using Mapnik |
| 19 Jan | French national land registry (cadastre) WMS opened to OSM (and other GIS). Authorities agree that their license is compatible with OSM if the source is provided (announcement in french, in english). |
| 14 Jan | Vienna street map completed. Announcement |
| 4 Jan | New Tramline Glattalbahn opened in the north of Zurich on Dec 14. Was already mapped on Openstreetmap the day before. |
| 2008 | |
| 24 Dec | Kingston Upon Hull, UK completed. Announcement |
| 23 Dec | Birmingham, UK and surrounds completed. Announcement |
| 19 Dec | North Rhine-Westphalia Road Building Authority makes complete road network data available for free use. |
| 12 Dec | The Bavarian Office of Land Survey is providing aerial imagery of Upper Palatinate for vectorization in a pilot project. |
| 6 Dec | An experimental mkgmap version supports routable Garmin maps. |
| 4 Dec | Image series A year of edits on planet Earth for OpenStreetMap. |
| 1 Dec | OSM- stats: Are mappers going on winter break? – discussion |
| 28 Nov | Google Maps - OSM comparison of the world's capitals |
| 23 Nov | German mappers found OpenStreetMap section of FOSSGIS e.V. |
| 18 Nov | Canadian government initiative GeoBase releases map data to OSM |