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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Influential Writing Award

For the best tutorial, documentation, blog or a blog post. A text or series of texts that attracted many new people to OSM, provided an interesting outlook on the project, or inspired the community to do better things.

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Weekly OSM
The amazing WeelyOSM team keeps us informed throughout the year with what is happening within and around the community and project. They never skip a Sunday, and are able to do this in several languages!
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Brazil Singh
Nominating Brazil Singh for Influence writing in 2025 about Openstreetmap and it's uses in Bangladesh, titled "What Is OpenStreetMap and Why Should Everyone in Bangladesh Use It?" where he briefly describes the importance of Openstreetmap in Bangladesh
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Raquel Dezidério Souto
Raquel writes about a variety of mapping topics with a particular interest in napping disaster areas and mapping to support sustainable development.
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OpenStreetMap Piemonte
Since 2021, OSM Piemonte has hosted, recorded, and shared talks for the italian community. Over the past year, they released eight new videos covering topics ranging from QLever to DIY RTK antennas.
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Youthmappers
An excellent blog to discover a diverse range of mapping stories from young people all over the world.
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b-unicycling
Published a series of high-quality OpenStreetMap diary posts and YouTube videos focused on mapping historical features.
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