Our Work

TeachOSM provides training, content, and curriculum, for educators of all levels to integrate OpenStreetMap in the classroom, and advocates for OSM in educational settings.

In our Mapping for Impact program, OpenStreetMap US partners with civic, social, and environmental organizations in the US to help them leverage the power of OpenStreetMap.

Our Community Project and Charter Project programs provide a long-term home for notable OpenStreetMap tools, programs, and services. We provide projects with stable legal and fiscal frameworks so developers and organizers can focus on what they do best: building things.

Public Domain Map is a bridge database that lets organizations crowdsource authoritative map data in cases where OpenStreetMap isn’t an option. Mappers can address public data gaps while producing high quality data that is format- and license-compatible with OSM.

The OpenStreetMap US Trails Stewardship Initiative is a collaboration of government, volunteer, and private sector stakeholders working to address issues in trail mapping, outdoor recreation, and public land management.

Low-tech and offline, Field Papers lets you take OpenStreetMap anywhere. Create and print an atlas for your area of interest, mark it up in the field, then scan and upload your annotations for mapping next time you’re at a computer.

Dogwood is the theme powering this website, developed in-house as an open source community resource. Dogwood pushes the envelope of static site generation, supporting large, complex, customizable sites. You can try it out for your own website.

MapRoulette breaks up OpenStreetMap work into snack-sized “challenges.” Earn points by fixing validation issues, turning nodes into areas, adding missing tags, and through countless other little tasks that contribute to a healthier map.

What are people mapping? OSMCha is an advanced (yet easy-to-use) tool to analyze bundles of OpenStreetMap edits, called changesets. Advanced filters, vandalism detection, and on-map visualization help you find and verify the changesets you care about.

OpenStreetMap for Roman roads? Middle Kingdom cities? 1890s railways? OpenHistoricalMap is aiming to create the most comprehensive, most out-of-date map of everything that’s existed from Then through Now.

Hop in, OpenStreetMap is taking a road trip! The Americana map style celebrates the cartographic traditions of paper highway maps in the United States, while driving forward open source vector tile technology. It’s the map designed by and for the US community.

Traditionally, OSM data has mainly been distributed in one big planet file. That’s quite the meal! SliceOSM instead lets you download OSM data from a custom area of interest, refreshed up to the minute. For when you only want a few bytes, try OSM By The Slice.