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2025

• July 1st - August 31st Autostop House organized by Polish Hitchhikers Association. Location - Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• August 1st - 14th Hitchgathering 2025 in Jurbarkai, Lithuania
• August 22nd - September 5th Tramprennen from Germany and Austria (Zittau/Vienna) to Blagaj BIH
• September 6th Duimenrace A one day hitchhiking race around the IJsselmeer in the Netherlands.
• September 12th - 14th Hitchhikers Gathering in Poland
• December 29th - January 1st NYE party in Poland

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• 09 July 2025

Paper published about the history of https://hitchmap.com/ and its predecessors. Alongside all hitchhiking rides ever collected by Hitchwiki and adjacent sites was published on Huggingface.

• 24 June 2025

The Baltics were chosen as the location for the 2025 Hitchgathering. All hitchhikers are welcome to join the scouting discussion on Signal/Matrix.

• 11 May 2025

A common format to tag official hitchhiking stops on OpenStreetMap was established. Alongside, all historic spots that used a different way to tag hitchhiking places were altered to adhere to the newly established standard. Now you can assume that this overpass query will give you all official hitchhiking spots that are mapped. Feel free to build upon this.

• 27 April 2025

The Atlantic article about hitchhiking and Hitchwiki.

• 05 February 2025

Article in Belgian media.

• 22 January 2025

🌍🌎🌏 HITCHMAP ACCOUNTS ARE BACK: Hitchmap Register.

Be quick to claim your account name if you have used the map already when it was on Hitchwiki or if you have submitted reviews using a nickname in the past. This will also enable you to see reviews of yourself or any other user like https://hitchmap.com/?user=bob#filters. As Hitchmap remains part of the Hitchwiki ecosystem you can also link your Hitchwiki account :)

• 7 November 2024

🌍🌎🌏 Quite a nice milestone for hitchmap you can now add the exact time of your ride to new spot entries and we got more in the pipeline - if you wanna speed things up you can have a look at github. This will benefit every hitchhiker using the map getting more precise information as well as hitchhiking research more broadly.

• 15 July 2024

Probably the first time a Member of the European Parliament hitchhiked from Brussels to Strassbourg

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