type=street rendering improvement type=street was overriding the ways it was on. So for example this residential street would have only rendered between 1905-1921 instead of from 1793. Cemetery pattern, icon and name The landuse=cemetery and amenity=grave_yard were only rendering a colour and had no pattern, name or icon. Now all Christian cemeteries have a cross pattern and all graveyards have a tombstone pattern and a label and icon. Note: The cemetery still doesn’t render the name. Wi...

After being inspired during Mapping USA by OpenHistoricalMap and OldInsuranceMaps.net, explore the history of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps in Sandusky, Ohio. How might these maps be used by local agencies ver...

I’m presenting OpenHistoricalMap at a geography symposium in Mexico I’ll be in Morelia June 16–19 for the XIV Symposium on Geography Teaching in Mexico. My talk is Wednesday the 17th, in the morning session on GIS and mapping tech. I want to walk geography teachers and students through OHM: what it does, where it parts ways with OpenStreetMap (the time attributes, mostly), and how it can work in a classroom for teaching historical geography and mapping. I’m also going to pitch the idea of stude...

Welp, I'm joining the ranks of the unemployed tech workers again. As before, I'm in a good situation. I don't depend on my former employer for health insurance. I've got some severance and savings, my family is in good health, we have a roof over our heads, and I have good connections. I don't feel afraid. But maybe I should? The job market is worse than last time this happened to me. I've seen experienced and talented people go for weeks and months without offers, and read some harrowing stories about what under-employment looks like for older tech workers these days. After a little detour into the biomedical field, I'm looking to get back into helping to solve important geospatial problems. If you've got them, please let me know.

Join the OpenHistoricalMap team OSM US’s first Mappy Hour of 2026 on Wednesday, March 4th from 8 - 9 pm Eastern. This Mappy Hour kicks off the first of regular online gatherings for the OHM community in Nort...

In the half a year since we started letting you log in using your OpenStreetMap account, localize map labels into your language, and more, our development team has been busier than ever. Keeping the lights on The last couple months have been unusually stressful for @Rub21, who thoughtfully implements the backend features and bug fixes you ask for. As a project on a shoestring budget, we also make him do double duty as our site reliability engineers. Like much larger sites you love, we’re seeing...

The map on the homepage is currently nonfunctional in some languages. If you are seeing this issue, please switch the interface to English for now. To change your interface language, click the 文A button in the top-right corner of the page, then choose English from the menu. Additionally, Wikipedia excerpts and image previews in the inspector sidebar are also broken. The only workaround is to click on the linked tag value. We are actively working on these issues. You can follow our progre...