In April, the #OpenHistoricalMap community added 137,660 dated elements, 106,732 buildings, and 37,220¼ railroad miles. The average age of a dated element fell by almost 2 years, and the average year shifted 17 months later. All this with the help of 36 new contributors – welcome!

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenHistoricalMap/Statistics

Join us tomorrow evening for #SouthBayMapNight, online from 7 PM onward. Get a friendly intro to #OpenStreetMap and #OpenHistoricalMap, share what you’ve been mapping, and learn about new integrations with Wikimedia wikis.

RSVP: https://osmcal.org/event/4705/ or https://www.meetup.com/bay-area-openstreetmappers/events/314265236/

Map2Go Build 3 out now!

https://testflight.apple.com/join/dkAu1Sy1

+ New color schema
+ Imagery offset
+ Filter views & destinations
+ #OpenHistoricalMap support
- Bug where overzoom caused imagery disappearance
+ Quick bar customization
+ Custom presets
~ Multiple suggestions if available
+ Custom address fields
- Commons & Panoramax missing OSM link bug
+ Wikidata suggestion if absent / shared name / proximity / P625
+ Background uploading
+ Notifications when uploading is done
+ Various fixes & improvements

In March, the #OpenHistoricalMap community added 643,241 dated elements, 18,358 buildings, and 5,816½ railroad miles. The average age of a dated element fell by 24 years, and the average year shifted 17 years later. All this with the help of 28 new contributors – welcome!

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenHistoricalMap/Statistics

Community members are scheduled to present at events in at least four countries in the next few months. Our event calendar has never looked so international! 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenHistoricalMap/Events

Are you interested in name-dropping #OpenHistoricalMap in an upcoming conference talk, organizing a historical mapathon, or live-streaming your editing session? Let us know! We’ll help get the word out and share ideas for making it a success.

Thank you to all the donors who have supported OpenHistoricalMap's fundraiser. We are more than 50% away from the timely goal of $2,026.

Donate: https://openstreetmap.app.neoncrm.com/forms/ohm-2026

Help us get there! Your investment will go directly toward enhancing OHM's dependability and usability.

#OpenHistoricalMap #OHM #OpenStreetMap

Oops! #OpenHistoricalMap was supposed to be a map of history, but then the linguists found us and turned us into an accidental map of the history of writing. @mxn shows how we and @maplibre are bringing #HGIS to more language traditions all over the world:

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoqwUHvYsrs
Slides: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Accidental_Map_of_the_History_of_Writing.pdf

#UTW2025 #internationalization

⏰️ There is still time to sign up for tonight's #OHM #Mappy Hour! ⏰️

Join the #OpenHistoricalMap team for a Mappy Hour on Wednesday, March 4th, from 8-9 pm ET.

🔗 https://openstreetmap.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/openstreetmap/event.jsp?event=200

It's the perfect opportunity to join if you are OHM-curious!