weeklyOSM 806
25/12/2025-31/12/2025
[1] I ‘Sisparnas’ developed by the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia | Leaflet – map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.
Community
- Carlos Felipe Castilo has developed a web dashboard to predict population figures in a region using OpenStreetMap data, such as building footprints, levels, and housing density.
- Evgeny Arbatov noted the importance of local knowledge from runners and walkers who discover unmapped streets.
- Rphyrin has conducted a field mapping expedition along the west coast of Java.
- Rtnf travelled to Bandung to attend a wedding, observing the surroundings during the journey and mapping them on OpenStreetMap.
Imports
- Chris Debian is proposing a bulk import of historical bunkers and pillboxes in the UK into OpenStreetMap.
- Damianeue is preparing a mass data import of Italy’s boundary data from the Database di Sintesi Nazionale into OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMap Foundation
- The OpenStreetMap Operations Team reported that they just received an exceptionally generous bitcoin donation of 2 BTC (valued around 177,017.60 USD at transaction time). You can also donate to OpenStreetMap using bitcoin.
Local chapter news
- Unique Mappers has released their 2025 annual newsletter.
OSM in action
- [1] The Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia has developed the National Tourism System (Sistem Pariwisata Nasional / ‘Sisparnas’), an OpenStreetMap-based webmap that displays all officially registered tourism destinations across the country.
Software
- Victor and Eugene shared OsmAnd’s 2026 New Year’s resolutions, offering a glimpse of future updates and improvements.
Programming
- The OSM Apps Catalog is getting a new design thanks to a microgrant from the OSM Foundation. Markus, aka ToastHawaii, the author of the OSM Apps Catalog, has asked the community to participate in a survey to better understand what users need.
Other "geo" things
- Tyler August, of Hackaday, reported that Instructables user madkins9 has developed a globe for playing the game Risk, resolving the long-standing debate over the most preferable map projection for players.
- Lorenz Hurni and others have written Engineers of Map Art, a comprehensive overview of 170 years of cartography at ETH Zurich, published to mark the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation.
- The Japan Geospatial Times, by Eita Horishita, has published an article introducing Japan’s FOSS4G community, featuring OSGeo Japan and the OpenStreetMap Japan ►.
- Josh Meissner examined the uneasy relationship between corporate capital and community-powered services, through the recent sale of the route-planning platform Komoot to private equity (we reported earlier).
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