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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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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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) develops and maintains the HOT Tasking Manager, an essential coordination platform for the OpenStreetMap community.
The Tasking Manager enables large-scale collaborative mapping by dividing vast areas into a grid of smaller tasks. This allows thousands of global volunteers to map simultaneously and efficiently, preventing duplicated effort and guiding validators to review new data.
It is a foundational "core system" for humanitarian response and community growth, serving as the primary entry point for many new contributors to the OSM project. Todate: over 529,000 mappers have used the platform to make more than 275 million map edits, adding more than 169 million buildings and 3.7 million kilometers of roads to OpenStreetMap, making it one of the most critical daily-use tools in the OpenStreetMap ecosystem.
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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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