We had a very productive year improving OSM in Utah in 2024! Here are some numbers and highlights we would like to share with you. Mappers added 11,24

OpenStreetMap Utah 2024 Year In Review | OpenStreetMap Utah

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We had a very productive year improving OSM in Utah in 2024! Here are some numbers and highlights we would like to share with you.

Mappers added 11,246 km of new sidewalks and improved a further 4,884 km! In the process, we also added 13,738 curbs! A lot of this work is powered by Rapid, the web-based OSM editor that has gained advanced pedestrian mapping functionality recently.

The road infrastructure in Utah is already fairly complete, but we are the fastest growing state and new subdivisions and other developments are built everywhere. We added 3,115 km of road infrastructure added improved a further 3,186 km.

Mapping new buildings has gotten a lot easier in the past years thanks to open buildings datasets from Microsoft and local governments. These are easy to add with the Rapid editor. In total, we mapped no less than 67,998 new buildings and improved another 6,139.

The raw numbers may not look as impressive when we look at points of interest like restaurants, shops, schools and cultural institutions. POIs need local knowledge and “boots on the ground”! Utah mappers delivered. We added 412 new restaurants and other food and drink establishments, and updated 1534 of them. When it comes to POI, updating is arguably even more important than creating! Nobody wants to go to a restaurant only to find that it is closed because the opening hours in OSM were not updated!