Q130350264, Q7214489, Q107659597
With the launch of vector tiles on the homepage and other long-awaited features, it’s a good time to be a daydreamer. Change is possible!
Slippy map
- The Map Layers sidebar offers two new featured layers based on vector tile technology. Shortbread and MapTiler OMT make it easier for you to see the impact of your mapping on maps that are based on the Shortbread and OpenMapTiles tile schemas, respectively. If you have any questions or concerns about these layers or ideas for improving them, please see this guide to the various software components involved that you can submit feedback on.
- Click the new 文A button at the top of the homepage to change your preferred language, even if you’re logged out. Besides the user interface language, this setting also affects the language of map labels in the MapTiler OMT layer, so you can much more easily detect missing or incorrect place names in regions where your language is a minority language.
Map data and history
- The history page for an element with many versions paginates to reduce loading time. Click the Older Versions and Newer Versions buttons to see more versions.
- When viewing the details of an element version, a new scrollable navigation bar lets you navigate among versions more easily without accidentally landing on a page you didn’t expect. If there are a lot of versions, it skips some so you can more easily jump around.
- We reorganized the per-changeset statistics on the history page so they’re easier to scan, and these icons also appear on other pages that link to changesets.
- Per-changeset statistics distinguish between elements added, deleted, and modified using a
indicator, like in OSMCha. (This only appears on a small number of changesets for now but will become more prevalent later.) - Click the Wikidata logo next to any
wikidata=*or*:wikidata=*tag value to reveal a more user-friendly label, description, and image. This feature is based on the Human-Readable Wikidata browser extension.
Search and directions
- Search terms stay visible in the search bar on the homepage as you open and close sidebar panels until you close the sidebar.
- We fixed the appearance of the “Where is this?” button in the search bar in Firefox.
- The distance unit toggle button can accommodate the longer words in some languages and also distinguishes between American-style miles and feet and British-style miles and yards.
- The map markers indicating the origin and destination of a route include
and 
icons so that you don’t have to distinguish them by color.
Settings and preferences
- If you joined OSM before May 2019, you have an opportunity to review and explicitly accept the terms of use in your account settings. If you joined after May 2019, you already accepted the terms of use when signing up.
- If you haven’t set your home location, the missing map on your dashboard shows you how.
- You can dismiss a popup notification by clicking on the
button. - Fixed an issue where the list of notes for a nonexistent user appeared in an unexpected language.
- Fixed an issue preventing accurate translations of the term “Terms of Use” into some languages.
User profiles
- We fixed an issue preventing localizations from translating the alt text for an unrecognized website.
- We added icons for any links to Mapillary, How Did You Contribute?, and the HOT Tasking Manager in your profile.
- We moved the Location and Organization bits to the sidebar of your user profile.
- We reorganized the Edit Profile page into multiple tabs.
Other changes
- We added a banner for State of the Map 2025 in Manila. See you there!
- Every paginated list, such as GPS traces or diary entries, now includes older and newer and oldest and newest buttons at the top and bottom of the page.
- Fixed an issue where an image at the end of a diary entry could break the page layout.
- Upgraded iD to v2.35.1, v2.35.2, and v2.35.3.
- An error appears as an error if you attempt to send a report to the administrators that lacks the required fields.
- We fixed an issue where the OAuth authorization flow would lose the
referrerand wouldn’t reach the right welcome page. - Fixed JavaScript functionality such as the search results in very old browsers such as Pale Moon and Firefox 85. Note that these old browsers are no longer officially supported.
For developers
We changed how some third-party tools can authenticate with the website through OAuth. This broke some third-party libraries and tools. Please see our security announcement for guidance on fixing regressions.- You can customize attribution strings in API responses using new environment variables at compile time.
For contributors
- We added a command for easily registering the required OAuth applications.
- You can contribute SVG images as individual files that get inlined automatically.
Thanks to @Koreller @_martin @Pikse for contributing their first pull requests to the website, to @ZeLonewolf for making his browser extension code available to crib from, and to the MapTiler team for their patience and persistence in getting MapLibre integrated into the site. Meanwhile, @pnorman gets all the blame for dragging us into the modern vector era. 
Thanks also to our regular contributors, and to all those who took the time to review the pull requests and provide user feedback on them before the changes went live.