List of featured images/2012

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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
Week 2 (9–15 Jan2025-01-09–)		English OSM Inspector License Change View is a useful tool for Remapping in preparation for the upcoming license change
Week 3 (16–22 Jan2025-01-16–)		English Tokyo [as rendered in red by CloudMade] -- hosts for State Of The Map 2012
Week 4 (23–29 Jan2025-01-23–)		English OpenStreetPad is a MapCSS based OpenStreetMap renderer for iPhone and the iPad.
Week 5 (30 Jan – 5 Feb2025-01-30–)		English The Forbidden City in Beijing
Week 6 (6–12 Feb2025-02-06–)		English Detail of Vatican City
Week 7 (13–19 Feb2025-02-13–)		English Phoenix Zoo (pictured) and others around the USA are starting to follow Berlin's example of being detailed in the OSM maps.
Week 8 (20–26 Feb2025-02-20–)		English Teams around the world took part in Night of the living maps, adding data from Aerial imagery
Week 9 (27 Feb – 4 Mar2025-02-27–)		English Travel-time to airports in Ireland: AIRO-ICLRD's Accessibility Map idea chooses OSM as base layer
Week 10 (5–11 Mar2025-03-05–)		English MapQuest Open tiles, showing their improved highway-labels
Week 11 (12–18 Mar2025-03-12–)		English Results from the New Lanark mapping party
Week 12 (19–25 Mar2025-03-19–)		English Clusters of tag usage in Edinburgh, shows types of contributor by the tags they use
Week 13 (26 Mar – 1 Apr2025-03-26–)		English Kartograph's rendering of Italy, showing just how much can be done in JavaScript.
Week 14 (2–8 Apr2025-04-02–)		English The Pearl-Qatar, being Doha's answer to the Palm Islands
Week 15 (9–15 Apr2025-04-09–)		English Stamen's watercolour-style maps blur the boundary between fine art and map rendering.
Week 16 (16–22 Apr2025-04-16–)		English OSM2world gives the first slippy-map where you can rotate a 3d view.
Week 17 (23–29 Apr2025-04-23–)		English 18 zoom-levels (1:250.000.000 - 1:2.000) of Lübeck City
Week 18 (30 Apr – 6 May2025-04-30–)		English On 28th of March a governor of Chelyabinsk Region, Russia was presented a city traffic management system based on OpenStreetMap. Photo ©gubernator74.ru
Week 19 (7–13 May2025-05-07–)		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
Week 20 (14–20 May2025-05-14–)		English Oxford cycle map highlights roads with cycle tracks alongside
Week 21 (21–27 May2025-05-21–)		English Map from State Of The Map U.S. 2012's website
Week 22 (28 May – 3 Jun2025-05-28–)		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
Week 23 (4–10 Jun2025-06-04–)		English Land polygons created with OSMCoastline from coastlines in OSM. The polygons are split into overlapping smaller polygons to make them easier to handle.
Week 24 (11–17 Jun2025-06-11–)		English FlightGear aircraft shown over OpenStreetMap's detail of KSFO airport.
Week 25 (18–24 Jun2025-06-18–)		English Density of GPS data collected by OSM [1]
Week 26 (25 Jun – 1 Jul2025-06-25–)		English AJ Ashton's Pirate Maps show-off Mapnik's new features
Week 27 (2–8 Jul2025-07-02–)		English Cycle maps of the UK
Week 28 (9–15 Jul2025-07-09–)		English Administrative boundaries in England view by OpenMapSurfer
Week 29 (16–22 Jul2025-07-16–)		English Maps copied onto shoes (by tracing over a projector image) [2]
Week 30 (23–29 Jul2025-07-23–)		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.
Week 31 (30 Jul – 5 Aug2025-07-30–)		English The Olympic stadium, in east London, hosting the XXX Olympics games.
Week 32 (6–12 Aug2025-08-06–)		English The Olympic stadium in Athens.
Week 33 (13–19 Aug2025-08-13–)		English Within three days of the Krymsk flood, Russian OSM members mapped buildings and distributed PDF atlases amongst rescue volunteers.
Week 34 (20–26 Aug2025-08-20–)		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!
Week 35 (27 Aug – 2 Sep2025-08-27–)		English Some of the mappers who attended the OSM 8th Birthday party in Toronto, Canada.
Week 36 (3–9 Sep2025-09-03–)		English http://bikeplanner.org demonstrates combined walking and cycle-hire routing
Week 37 (10–16 Sep2025-09-10–)		English Conference photo from State Of The Map 2012, Tokyo
Week 38 (17–23 Sep2025-09-17–)		English Visualization of the Planet.gpx dump with some commentary.
Week 39 (24–30 Sep2025-09-24–)		English Apple showing possibly OSM on their new map application on iOS 6.
Week 40 (1–7 Oct2025-10-01–)		English A screenshot of the WhoDidIt tool over London.
Week 41 (8–14 Oct2025-10-08–)		English Karlsruhe Hack Weekend October 2012
Week 42 (15–21 Oct2025-10-15–)		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...
Week 43 (22–28 Oct2025-10-22–)		English Slovak OpenStreetMap community having mapping party in Braväcovo. freemap.sk is an OpenStreetMap community site for Slovakia
Week 44 (29 Oct – 4 Nov2025-10-29–)		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.
Week 45 (5–11 Nov2025-11-05–)		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
Week 46 (12–18 Nov2025-11-12–)		English The NoName map has been re-launched, showing an up-to-date view of where OpenStreetMap roads have no name
Week 47 (19–25 Nov2025-11-19–)		English Pascal Neis and Dennis Zielstra have come up with some wonderful statistics showing the distribution of the OSM contributors relative to population.
Week 48 (26 Nov – 2 Dec2025-11-26–)		English A new game called Train Lord is using OSM for worldwide rail network coverage.
Week 49 (3–9 Dec2025-12-03–)		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.
Week 50 (10–16 Dec2025-12-10–)		English London Hack Weekend the first weekend in December 2012. Writeup by Harry Wood.
Week 51 (17–23 Dec2025-12-17–)		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
Week 52 (24–30 Dec.)		English OSM map of Christmas Island.