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Thanks for joining us for #MappingUSA last weekend! Good news: videos are up: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqjPa29lMiE3pxE0C8Ll5BJ4O04sGUI_R

#OpenStreetMap #MappingUSA #opendata #mapping #GIS #geospatial

This is the single largest increase in the average age of an element and the single largest decline in the average year since recordkeeping began in June 2023. That’s actually a good thing: it means we’re mitigating #recentism, bringing more historical balance to our coverage.

A line chart of dates along the X axis from May 2025 to present and average age in years along the Y axis from 110 to 140 years. The series seesaws between 125 and 135 except for a drop toward the latter half of last year to 120 before rebounding to 127 this month.

A line chart of dates along the X axis from May 2025 to present and average year along the Y axis from 1920 to 1950. The series mostly stays within the 1930s, steadily rising to the early 1940s in 2025 before a steep drop back to 1938 this month.

In January, the #OpenHistoricalMap community added 65,731 dated elements, 9,668 buildings, and 15,303½ railroad miles. The average age of a dated element rose by more than 7 years, and the average year shifted more than 4 years earlier. All this with the help of 39 new contributors – welcome!

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

RE: https://en.osm.town/@osm_tech/115968544599864782

This 😣

@richlv @vees If there’s any way to come up with start dates on the data, then it would be a good candidate for an import. Or if there’s newer data that we can diff it against.

OpenHistoricalMap boosted:

Wonderful call to action to academia from Dariusz, a thoughful former board trustee for the Wikimedia Foundation https://rdcu.be/eYRTA

OpenHistoricalMap boosted:

Happy 25th Birthday Wikipedia! 🥳 🎂

Wikipedia & OpenStreetMap are open projects & open communities to build a free content, to make the world a better place. ☺️ ☺️

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/

#Wikipedia #Wikipedia25 #FreeCulture #OpenStreetMap

OpenHistoricalMap boosted:

Snag your early bird #SOTMUS tickets before pricing goes up on Feb. 1. The early bird catches the deal: https://openstreetmap.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/openstreetmap/event.jsp?event=194&

#StateoftheMapUS #earlybird #OpenStreetMap

OpenHistoricalMap boosted:

Wikipedia turns 25 today! 🎂📚

To celebrate, we’re looking back at its baby pictures—some of the earliest captures of the site, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.

Take a nostalgic peek at early Wikipedia ⤵️

https://web.archive.org/web/20030301000000*/en.wikipedia.org

#WikipediaDay #Wikipedia25 @wikipedia

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and "WIKIPEDIA.ORG" at the bottom. Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Cartoon Network website from JUN 8, 2003.

OpenHistoricalMap boosted:

concept for a historical data science project im working on. europe, 1938.
written with python (osmnx and folium); map data from #openstreetmap and #openhistoricalmap

#openstreetmap #openhistoricalmap

In December, the #OpenHistoricalMap community added 55,351 dated elements, 13,877 buildings, and 8,959 railroad miles. The average age of a dated element fell by 8 months, and the average year shifted one year later. All this with the help of 31 new contributors – welcome!

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

We deeply appreciate all the help that @greeninfo provided over the years. We look forward to spending an unprecedented 2026 with the #HistoricalMapping and @OpenStreetMapUS communities.

The main #VectorTiles tileset contains route information for more informative transportation map styles. A new tileset contains territories as polygons, so your custom map can color in a country or other administrative region.

A raw view of the data showing route_lines features with indexed tram route attributes.

A raw data view of the world highlighting country territories as polygons, showing details about Numidia and France.

The map can label #toponyms in #MinorityLanguages #IndigenousLanguages #AncientLanguages, like no other world atlas you’ve ever flipped through.

#localization #internationalization #multilingualism #WritingHistory

If you contribute to @wikipedia @wikidata #WikimediaCommons #Wikivoyage, you can join OpenHistoricalMap in just a few clicks, without having to juggle yet another password for yet another wiki. It works a lot like our existing OpenStreetMap login support.

#SingleSignOn #OAuth2

Hi Example, In order to complete your request, OpenHistoricalMap needs permission to access information about you, including your email address, on all projects of this site. No changes will be made with your account.

#OSMCha can visualize giant changesets without timing out or throwing an error. No one will sneak another empire into OHM without the community noticing it.

#HowToHideAnEmpire

OSMCha showing a changeset that adds many streets to Mannheim.

OSMCha showing a changeset that adds boundaries around the world to the French Empire.

#scrapers and #crawlers are waging a constant #DDOS on our site and driving up cloud hosting costs. We’re coping, but if it keeps getting worse, will OHM last? 🫠