Ilya Zverev

The [OpenStreetMap community awards](https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/06/07/call-for-nominees-openstreetmap-awards-2025-in-manila/) are nominated and chosen by the community.

So you want to improve the map of your village or city. How do you do that — install Mapillary and go cycling? Print a map and use a pen to draw over it? Install an editor app and go tapping buttons? Just try to remember everything and bring it home to map in JOSM? Let's see what…

This is a practical lesson on mapping with Every Door app. The idea for the app is, it's not enough to just map: you should map every single thing you see. So let's train our mapping muscles a bit: it's not a problem that we're inside, treat it as an art class.

Most geographers look to OpenStreetMap for the data. It is indeed unique, with many attempts at duplicating the idea failed. At its core is crowdmapping: making regular people improve the map. Not having the data, geographers look into that too.

Let's look away from familiar continents and comfortable symbolics. When you are making an entirely new world, how do you map it? When any choice can be made from scratch, why game makers sometimes use common carthographic paradigms, or circumvent them? And given we are at a GIS…

OpenStreetMap editing transitions to mobile devices. There are few editing apps, and the best ones are thematical. This year I've published "Every Door": an app specifically designed to collect hundreds of shops and amenities.

OpenStreetMap is a collector's dream. While there is a finite set of stamps or coins, there are millions of shops and beauty salons, and new ones are opened every day.