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.

innovation

Innovation Award

For the best new service or approach. New tools for contributing data, image recognition, trace or OSM data analysis, new mapping approach or new perspective on old tools.

innovation
HeiGIT
With their work HeiGIT bridges the gap between fundamental research in geoinformatics and practical applications by developing innovative tools and methods. In almost all of their work OpenStreetMap is central. Summing up some of the great tools they developed over the years: openrouteservice, ohsome Dashboard, MapSwipe, and Sketchmap Tool.
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innovation
deevroman a.k.a TrickyFoxy
i love better osm so much..
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innovation
TrickyFoxy
For his very good work in making Better Osm
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innovation
Mercy Akintola
Mercy led the development and deployment of an open-source deep learning framework for Urban Heat Island (UHI) detection, integrating OpenStreetMap data with remote sensing and AI for climate resilience in the Global South. Through his leadership with the Map Nigeria Team, he organized open community mapping campaigns in cities like Lagos and Abidjan, empowering local volunteers to map buildings, roads, and vegetation that directly supported urban climate adaptation strategies. The resulting data was combined with satellite imagery and processed using a custom-built U-Net model, enabling policymakers to identify urban heat hotspots and implement targeted interventions.

Mercy’s work exemplifies the transformative power of open mapping combined with frontier technology to address climate justice and urban inequality.
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innovation
Mercy Akintola
Mercy led the development and deployment of an open-source deep learning framework for Urban Heat Island (UHI) detection, integrating OpenStreetMap data with remote sensing and AI for climate resilience in the Global South. Through his leadership with the Map Nigeria Team, he organized open community mapping campaigns in cities like Lagos and Abidjan, empowering local volunteers to map buildings, roads, and vegetation that directly supported urban climate adaptation strategies. The resulting data was combined with satellite imagery and processed using a custom-built U-Net model, enabling policymakers to identify urban heat hotspots and implement targeted interventions.

Mercy’s work exemplifies the transformative power of open mapping combined with frontier technology to address climate justice and urban inequality.
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innovation
TrickyFoxy
TrickyFoxy add plugin to osm main paige to deal like osmcha
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