OSM Awards 2025

If you ask anyone mapping in Africa, they will know Geoffrey. He started contributing to OpenStreetMap in 2012 and has since than made it a personal mission to grow OpenStreetMap on his continent. He is a founder and leader of OpenStreetMap Africa, a network of local communities across Africa working together to organize the bi-annual State of the Map Africa conference.
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Since February 2025, Brazil is helping our company to fix the routing issues we face during our delivery. As we used OSM for our routing, we often faced some routing issues, and our team doesn't have any idea how to fix that, but when we got Brazil, he easily solved the issues, not only that, but also he trained our mapping team, how to correctly map and also how to correctly fix all the issues. On behalf of our company, we would like to nominate him for this award. Regards, Md. Saidul Islam

Sarah Hoffmann has made outstanding and sustained contributions to the OpenStreetMap project, playing a crucial role in the development and maintenance of key infrastructure such as Nominatim and osm2pgsql, tools that underpin much of the OSM ecosystem. In addition to technical contributions, she has given her time to community leadership through the OSMF board, and State of the Map Working Group
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Climate Regiliance Fellowship 2025 by Open Mapping Hub, was a great opportunity for the student like us do develop a project and work for humanitarian causes. In this fellowship, I met with Brazil, and I learned about maproulete, how we can eaily detect any issues in any priority areas in OSM. I was just a beginner in OSM, he not only teach me how to map, but also showed me how we can actually solve problems in the map. From then I really impressed by knowing Openstreetmap, and yeah Brazil really not only helped me but also helped our entire small group by giving his important time. And I am happy to nominate the true OSM advocate.
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I met with Brazil in a Dhaka Thrive Project, where we were working with Open Mapping Hub in the slum area. And that time I had no idea what field mapping is, then I asked him to help me, and he happily helped me to understand what field mapping is, though my work is to collect data using Kobo, I had no idea about OSM, he actually helped me understand all the OSM ecosystem. And I also heared and reall all his OSM history and story as a student how he do volunteer works, I really think that he deserves this award.
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Sawan is one of the top mappers/contributors in OSM from Bangladesh. But his track record in contributing to community development, especially promoting & advocating OSM to the youth/students in the South Asia region, is phenomenal. He has been serving as a regional ambassador and technical focal point for YouthMappers, with a country focus in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Srilanka, and Myanmar. In last 05 years he has introduced new YouthMappers chapters in more than 20 educational institutes throughout the region, while mentoring more than a dozen others. He has conducted and facilitated more than 100 training sessions/workshops/mapathons, coordinated national & regional events like the YouthMappers Bangladesh Summit 2023 & 2024, the State of the Map Asia & State of the Map Bangladesh 2019 & 2024, and facilitated a couple of dozen other external trainings on OSM organized by multiple organizations, groups & institutes. Overall, he has been one of the key activists & influencers of OSM in youth & academia in the region and has become a role model example to the OSM youth both in the region & the globe.
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As a student, I’ve never met someone as dedicated as Brazil Singh in promoting OpenStreetMap. He introduced OSM to our campus, organized mapping events, and always made time to help us learn, even during exams! His passion pushed many of us to join HOT and contribute meaningfully to our communities.
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From January First 2024 Brazil Became Open Mapping GURU and Helped us by conducting training on Openstreetmap, ID Editor, Map Roulete, Mapilary and also he gives us lots of Open Mapping Related opportunities
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Brazil Singh has made an extraordinary contribution to the OpenStreetMap (OSM) community in Asia. He helped students to know more about Open Mapping and he is our motivation.
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Made significant contributions to essential OpenStreetMap tools, including EveryDoor and Level0.
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