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.

Selecting Nominees: The awards committees are working on filtering the list of nominees to four or five for each category, using your submissions and votes. The voting will open on the 1st of September.

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.

core

Jake Low

Jake has done tremendous work to overhaul and modernize the OSMCha stack. This mission critical software is now more performant, more stable, and even better set up for the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNHxDeNGU-Y
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Grant Slater

Grant is OSMF's Site Reliability Engineer and leads + supports core processes that enable many to make contributions and use OSM! His leadership was truly commendable during the outage in 2024.
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core

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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core

Christian Quest

For being the power behind Panoramax.
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core

Anton Khorev

For the resurrection of osm.org development
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