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.

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Team Archievement Award

For outstanding archievement in mapping, providing data or bringing the OpenStreetMap community together. Awarded to commercial companies, non-profits, government organizations and volunteer groups.

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UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers
UPRI YouthMappers have consistently shown what it means to use open mapping for public service. Over the years, they’ve worked with diverse communities such as OpenStreetMap-Philippines, Open Mapping Hub-Asia Pacific, Mapillary/Meta, TomTom, Karta, UN Mappers, and Grab-Philippines, to grassroots partners like Buklod Tao and Tiklop Society of the Philippines—always grounding their work in development needs and addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals.

They’ve promoted a holistic practice of mapping that brings together disaster resilience, sustainable mobility, education, and youth leadership. Their flagship projects including PedalMap, developed during the Open Data Day celebration in 2024, was recently recognized through the Gawad Pangulo sa Natatanging Organisasyong Pangmag-aaral, the highest distinction for student organizations in the University of the Philippines. More than just producing maps, they build relationships, mentor young mappers, and push for inclusive use of open data in governance and community planning.

Their impact is steady, collaborative, and deeply rooted in service.
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Marco Minghini
Marco Minghini for his contribution to building and sustaining a global academic network around OpenStreetMap.

Over the years, Marco has played a key role in connecting the academic world with the OSM community, particularly through his leadership and coordination of the academic track at the State of the Map conferences. He has helped create a space where researchers from all over the world can present, collaborate, and share ideas that both draw from and give back to the OSM ecosystem.

Marco’s work has amplified OSM’s credibility in scientific research, public policy, and education — especially within the European Commission, where he now works at the Joint Research Centre (JRC). His efforts go beyond advocacy: he contributes hands-on to data, tools, and applications that benefit the wider OSM community.

Thanks to his tireless efforts, an entire team of researchers, institutions, and students now sees OpenStreetMap not just as a dataset, but as a collaborative digital commons. Marco’s work exemplifies how long-term commitment and quiet leadership can turn individual passion into collective progress.
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WeeklyOSM Team
For its unwavering commitment to delivering weekly OpenStreetMap news —translated into multiple languages— and for its comprehensive coverage of the global OSM community, including mapping campaigns, community events, technological developments, research, and surprising real-world uses of OSM data.
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Jannie Fleur Oraño