List of featured images/2012

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These are featured images, which have been identified as the best examples of OpenStreetMap mapping, or as useful illustrations of the OpenStreetMap project.

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See also: List of featured images/2011 and List of featured images/2013

2012

Week 1
(2–8 Jan.)
English A year of OSM - video showing editing activity during 2011 edit
Week 2
(9–15 Jan2025-01-09–Error: Invalid time.)
English OSM Inspector License Change View is a useful tool for Remapping in preparation for the upcoming license change edit
Week 3
(16–22 Jan2025-01-16–Error: Invalid time.)
English Tokyo [as rendered in red by CloudMade] -- hosts for State Of The Map 2012 edit
Week 4
(23–29 Jan2025-01-23–Error: Invalid time.)
English OpenStreetPad is a MapCSS based OpenStreetMap renderer for iPhone and the iPad. edit
Week 5
(30 Jan – 5 Feb2025-01-30–Error: Invalid time.)
English The Forbidden City in Beijing edit
Week 6
(6–12 Feb2025-02-06–Error: Invalid time.)
English Detail of Vatican City edit
Week 7
(13–19 Feb2025-02-13–Error: Invalid time.)
English Phoenix Zoo (pictured) and others around the USA are starting to follow Berlin's example of being detailed in the OSM maps. edit
Week 8
(20–26 Feb2025-02-20–Error: Invalid time.)
English Teams around the world took part in Night of the living maps, adding data from Aerial imagery edit
Week 9
(27 Feb – 4 Mar2025-02-27–Error: Invalid time.)
English Travel-time to airports in Ireland: AIRO-ICLRD's Accessibility Map idea chooses OSM as base layer edit
Week 10
(5–11 Mar2025-03-05–Error: Invalid time.)
English MapQuest Open tiles, showing their improved highway-labels edit
Week 11
(12–18 Mar2025-03-12–Error: Invalid time.)
English Results from the New Lanark mapping party edit
Week 12
(19–25 Mar2025-03-19–Error: Invalid time.)
English Clusters of tag usage in Edinburgh, shows types of contributor by the tags they use edit
Week 13
(26 Mar – 1 Apr2025-03-26–Error: Invalid time.)
English Kartograph's rendering of Italy, showing just how much can be done in JavaScript. edit
Week 14
(2–8 Apr2025-04-02–Error: Invalid time.)
English The Pearl-Qatar, being Doha's answer to the Palm Islands edit
Week 15
(9–15 Apr2025-04-09–Error: Invalid time.)
English Stamen's watercolour-style maps blur the boundary between fine art and map rendering. edit
Week 16
(16–22 Apr2025-04-16–Error: Invalid time.)
English OSM2world gives the first slippy-map where you can rotate a 3d view. edit
Week 17
(23–29 Apr2025-04-23–Error: Invalid time.)
English 18 zoom-levels (1:250.000.000 - 1:2.000) of Lübeck City edit
Week 18
(30 Apr – 6 May2025-04-30–Error: Invalid time.)
English On 28th of March a governor of Chelyabinsk Region, Russia was presented a city traffic management system based on OpenStreetMap. Photo ©gubernator74.ru edit
Week 19
(7–13 May2025-05-07–Error: Invalid time.)
English Out mapping in Brazil - hackers from São Paulo did an "Ônibus Hacker" bus trip to Ribeirão Preto to teach 12-14 year olds how to map edit
Week 20
(14–20 May2025-05-14–Error: Invalid time.)
English Oxford cycle map highlights roads with cycle tracks alongside edit
Week 21
(21–27 May2025-05-21–Error: Invalid time.)
English Map from State Of The Map U.S. 2012's website edit
Week 22
(28 May – 3 Jun2025-05-28–Error: Invalid time.)
English OpenStreetMap's technology makes it easy to create fictional maps, for example Inspector Lewis' version of Oxford (at minute 55), modified to include plot-specific details edit
Week 23
(4–10 Jun2025-06-04–Error: Invalid time.)
English Land polygons created with OSMCoastline from coastlines in OSM. The polygons are split into overlapping smaller polygons to make them easier to handle. edit
Week 24
(11–17 Jun2025-06-11–Error: Invalid time.)
English FlightGear aircraft shown over OpenStreetMap's detail of KSFO airport. edit
Week 25
(18–24 Jun2025-06-18–Error: Invalid time.)
English Density of GPS data collected by OSM [1] edit
Week 26
(25 Jun – 1 Jul2025-06-25–Error: Invalid time.)
English AJ Ashton's Pirate Maps show-off Mapnik's new features edit
Week 27
(2–8 Jul2025-07-02–Error: Invalid time.)
English Cycle maps of the UK edit
Week 28
(9–15 Jul2025-07-09–Error: Invalid time.)
English Administrative boundaries in England view by OpenMapSurfer edit
Week 29
(16–22 Jul2025-07-16–Error: Invalid time.)
English Maps copied onto shoes (by tracing over a projector image) [2] edit
Week 30
(23–29 Jul2025-07-23–Error: Invalid time.)
English Redaction bot progress map [3] at the start of the week. Yellow squares were in progress on Monday. Green squares are complete. Red squares had errors and will be re-run. edit
Week 31
(30 Jul – 5 Aug2025-07-30–Error: Invalid time.)
English The Olympic stadium, in east London, hosting the XXX Olympics games. edit
Week 32
(6–12 Aug2025-08-06–Error: Invalid time.)
English The Olympic stadium in Athens. edit
Week 33
(13–19 Aug2025-08-13–Error: Invalid time.)
English Within three days of the Krymsk flood, Russian OSM members mapped buildings and distributed PDF atlases amongst rescue volunteers. edit
Week 34
(20–26 Aug2025-08-20–Error: Invalid time.)
English OSM user Ikiya has created another delicious map cake to celebrate OSM 8th birthday in Fukushima Japan. This cake recreates the SotM 2012 logo. SotM 2012 will be held in Tokyo Japan, in just a few days! edit
Week 35
(27 Aug – 2 Sep2025-08-27–Error: Invalid time.)
English Some of the mappers who attended the OSM 8th Birthday party in Toronto, Canada. edit
Week 36
(3–9 Sep2025-09-03–Error: Invalid time.)
English http://bikeplanner.org demonstrates combined walking and cycle-hire routing edit
Week 37
(10–16 Sep2025-09-10–Error: Invalid time.)
English Conference photo from State Of The Map 2012, Tokyo edit
Week 38
(17–23 Sep2025-09-17–Error: Invalid time.)
English Visualization of the Planet.gpx dump with some commentary. edit
Week 39
(24–30 Sep2025-09-24–Error: Invalid time.)
English Apple showing possibly OSM on their new map application on iOS 6. edit
Week 40
(1–7 Oct2025-10-01–Error: Invalid time.)
English A screenshot of the WhoDidIt tool over London. edit
Week 41
(8–14 Oct2025-10-08–Error: Invalid time.)
English Karlsruhe Hack Weekend October 2012 edit
Week 42
(15–21 Oct2025-10-15–Error: Invalid time.)
English The University of Cambridge's new online map was made live at http://map.cam.ac.uk in late September 2012 (and also linked from the University's home page). This prestigious, year-long project has contributed lots of data to OSM and uses OSM data for its street index and custom renderings. More... edit
Week 43
(22–28 Oct2025-10-22–Error: Invalid time.)
English Slovak OpenStreetMap community having mapping party in Braväcovo. freemap.sk is an OpenStreetMap community site for Slovakia edit
Week 44
(29 Oct – 4 Nov2025-10-29–Error: Invalid time.)
English The "Surging Seas" map blends OpenStreetMap and aerial imagery to interactively simulate sea level rise due to climate change. Here we see New York after a 10ft rise, the maximum setting. The storm surge of Hurricane Sandy brought a rise of up to 13ft. edit
Week 45
(5–11 Nov2025-11-05–Error: Invalid time.)
English Trevor Dhu from AusAID demonstrates flood impact in Jakarta with InaSAFE to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the 5th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction . One of the key sets of information used in the analysis is OpenStreetMap data edit
Week 46
(12–18 Nov2025-11-12–Error: Invalid time.)
English The NoName map has been re-launched, showing an up-to-date view of where OpenStreetMap roads have no name edit
Week 47
(19–25 Nov2025-11-19–Error: Invalid time.)
English Pascal Neis and Dennis Zielstra have come up with some wonderful statistics showing the distribution of the OSM contributors relative to population. edit
Week 48
(26 Nov – 2 Dec2025-11-26–Error: Invalid time.)
English A new game called Train Lord is using OSM for worldwide rail network coverage. edit
Week 49
(3–9 Dec2025-12-03–Error: Invalid time.)
English Pedestrian Map for Cubbon park, Bangalore, created as part of a class project at NID. Students developed a system of navigation and wayfinding for visitors to the park. Data was collected using Walking Papers, added to OpenStreetMap, and then exported and processed in Adobe Illustrator for the final output. edit
Week 50
(10–16 Dec2025-12-10–Error: Invalid time.)
English London Hack Weekend the first weekend in December 2012. Writeup by Harry Wood. edit
Week 51
(17–23 Dec2025-12-17–Error: Invalid time.)
English Students and teachers from five countries meet in Saarburg, Germany to learn how to gather data, use mapping devices, feed in and maintain the OSM data. Meetings in Portugal, Slovenia, Romania and Turkey will follow as part of this two year EU funded Comenius project edit
Week 52
(24–30 Dec.)
English OSM map of Christmas Island. edit
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