OSM Awards 2025

This year, we are again presenting the OpenStreetMap Awards! Seven nominees will receive an award in seven categories at the State of the Map 2025 conference. This is a community award: you decide who the nominees are, before you vote for them.

Call For Nominees: Suggest a person for any of the categories of the award. We only ask for three pieces of information: a name of one or two individuals, a project (what did they do to claim an award), and optionally an URL for any web page that describes the project. Teams, groups and companies, commercial or not, can compete only in the "Team" category. Eligible is everything that was announced between January 1st, 2024, and April 1st, 2025. The call for nominees ends on the 23rd of July.

Core Systems Award

For outstanding contributions to any of the core tools, systems, processes or resources. Not limited to systems under OSMF control. The Rails port, osm2pgsql, openstreetmap-carto, iD, JOSM, mapnik and any other tool that mappers use on a daily basis, knowingly or not, are eligible.

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Paul Norman

Paul has developed a potentially massive step forwards for the map rendering toolchain with a rendering pipeline that combines the flexible rendering of vector tile technology with the immediate response to edits of OSM’s current front page and is designed as a model for custom maps using data from OSM.
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Christian Quest

For being the power behind Panoramax.
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Anton Khorev

For the resurrection of osm.org development
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Roman Deev

better-osm-org is a user script that adds several improvements for experienced osm.org users.
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Grant Slater

His leadership and efforts in navigating the challenges during the December 2024 OpenStreetMap outage were truly outstanding.
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