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The first time I became aware of the very existence of the “State of the Map” event was, I think, around 2022.

At that time, it was held in Italy. I think I heard about it somewhere online. All I remember is the group photo of the participants (there were plenty of people there) and the beautiful, cool-looking SotM 2022 logo.

That year, I had just recently graduated, so I could get involved in the OpenStreetMap movement more intensely than I had in the years before (before that, I usually only actively mapped during college holiday seasons. Once the holiday was over, I didn’t map anymore). That’s why at that time I started interacting with the community more, and eventually learned about this “State of the Map” event.

Even though I still don’t remember exactly where I first received the news about the event.

At that time, my first reaction was, “I don’t think I’m able to commute farther than either Jakarta or Bandung.” So, back then, I thought, “I don’t think I’m able to visit Italy.”

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Fast-forward to after 2022. I gave several technical and/or philosophical talks about OSM sporadically, mostly online. From a technical standpoint, I talked about things like “how to map,” “how to use this particular tool,” or “introducing a tool that I recently built.” From a philosophical standpoint, I talked about ideas and dreams about “how the OSM platform should evolve in the future,” “how we should organize the people in the OSM movement,” etc., etc.

I finally had a chance to attend an OSM-related meeting physically, rather than online, for the first time around 2025. In this case, it was still within the boundaries that I had defined back in 2022 (Jakarta), so I was able to go.

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why does OSM have diray entries? i guess i’ll try to find out

My first diary entry. Testing 123

(english below)

JugoTour 26

Am 1.Juli 2026 bin ich zum 20. Mal zu einer kontinentalen Fernradreise aufgebrochen. Dieses Jahr ging es endlich daran, den weißen Fleck auf meiner persönlichen Karte zu füllen: Ich hatte mich noch nie tief in den Balkan getraut. Auch wenn meine Reise 2001 von Israel nach Ägypten und zurück politisch aufregend und fern der EU war, so ist das doch schon fünfundzwanzig Jahre her und die Grenzübertritte im ehemaligen Jugoslawien jedesmal begleitet von einem gewissen thrill: Wird jetzt alles ganz anders sein?
Das Nebeneinander von Islam und Christentum war spannend zu sehen; sehr eindrücklich war auch, die Christen als historische Aggressoren und die muslimischen Gebiete als deutlich entspanntere Gesellschaft zu erleben.

Fokus auf Städte

Ich bin meinem Habitus treu geblieben, eine Perlenschnur durch die Hauptstädte zu fahren und sich nicht aus Liebe zur Natur auf besondere Abwege zu begeben. Trotzdem bekam ich natürlich geologisch allerhand zu staunen. Für die Anreise nach Klagenfurt buchte ich ein Zugticket nach Villach, für die Heimreise bekam ich über Flixbus einen Fernreisebus von HAK gebucht, der mich für 120€ in einem Rutsch mit Fahrrad bis Köln brachte.

Dauer und Übernachtungen

Die Tour mit kleinem Zelt dauerte drei Wochen; übernachtet habe ich meist abseits der Siedlungen, manchmal aber auch in AirB’n’B (Sarajevo) oder privat indoor (z.B. in Skopje), wenn ich spontan abends dazu eingeladen wurde, was häufig vorkam.

Po deseti letech přispívání do OSM mě stále baví objevovat nová místa na mapě. Tak snad mi to ještě chvilku vydrží.

Bonjour, as our gracious hosts like to say.

The French community, together with the university, put together a fun experience. Keep in mind that this is my first (larger) OSM gathering of any type.

As an longtime inhabitant of the forum at c.osm.org I already read a few views on different types of members of our actually very diverse community. While there are quite some typical German Mappers on OSM (mapping away without ever interacting and kinda thinking of OSM as their personal project) there are so many different people out there working with and for OSM.

To all those “brickheads” out there: There’s so much more out there than just your personal interest!

In this first installment of my random musings I’ll just leave a link to a good talk I saw on day one that touches some frequent points of concern:

https://2026.stateofthemap.org/sessions/3GRKKJ/

To all you people in Paris: See you around :)

on 25/8/26, we were a combination of bored enough and annoyed enough to start cleaning up the metadata of german railway stations, so as the track numbers actually appear in clients such as OpenRailwayMap (ORM) ((which we use regularly))

today we are going to formalize the process, also so that our commit history is less tedious to write

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anything we do which is to further the purpose of creating a basic standard of german railway OSM cartography will be simply marked as “DMC - [bahnhofname]”

and further, in almost every case unless otherwise specified, our information comes from the database within Bahnhof.de supplied by the Deutsche Bahn, and our own knowledge from living within and travelling across germany

Ecuador - Pichincha - Quito

Ecuador (Pichincha- Quito)

Ecuador (Guayas/ Balzar)

Well The North Side Is Done For Now. But Due For School, The Edet’s Will Be Slower.

قرية محقب من احدى قراى عزلة لهاب وتكون مركز للعزله وكما يوجد فيها محامي لدى محكمة حراز اسم المحامي بكرقاسم حميد

Viernes 28 de Agosto del 2026.

Se realizo:

1. Se agrega Condominio Vista Alameda, Villa Parque Alameda I, II y III

2. Se agrega a “Loteo Fundo Viejo” (Ex Los Tilos) y se modifica Villa Los Tilos a “Villa Las Casas de Los Tilos”.

3. Se agrega Condominios Parque Trapiche I, II y III, Nueva Alameda II, Villa Alameda I, II, III, IV, V y VI, Condominio Arboleda de Koke, Condominio Neo Koke, Condominio Keep Koke y Condominio Parque Nogales.

4. Se modifica algunos nombres de loteos y condominios.

Je me retire complétement de OSM, OGF et OHM pour une durée interminée à cause d’évènements personels à partir de 26/08/2026.

Edit du 28/08/2026: Je reviens un peu sur OGF.

Rádio TV NOVA

In June 2026, UN Mappers Kenya launched its first ever Youth Climate Mapping Externship ,a seven-week virtual programme designed to put real geospatial tools in the hands of young Kenyans and point them at real climate problems in Nairobi. Nineteen university students answered the call.

A Programme Built by UN Mappers Kenya

The Youth Climate Mapping Externship 2026 is a UN Mappers Kenya initiative , born from the UN Maps chapter initiative and the belief that open geospatial data should be created by the communities it represents, not just for them. From the first session to the graduation ceremony, every element of this programme was designed and delivered under the UN Mappers Kenya banner.

The Journey

The externship ran from 29 June to 17 August 2026 across four progressive phases.

Phase 1 — Learn (Weeks 1 and 2)

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Miercoles 26 de agosto de 2026. Se realizo: 1. Se agrega etiqueta de Condominio Tonsupa playa azul cerca de la calle Cervantes 2. Se agrega nombres de calles en Barrios vista al mar entre calles 3. Se corrige tramo de vía que corresponde a Av. Esmeraldas y no a Av. Atacames Desde el norte corresponde a Esmeralda y desde el sur corresponde a Atacames 4. Se agrega nombres de calles en las urbanizaciónes del Pacífico

En la página principal de OpenStreetMap osm.org en algunas ocasiones sale un cuadro en el borde superior derecho, con una imagen relacionada con OSM. En muchos casos es promocionando el evento State of the Map global. Aquí algunos ejemplos:

Lo bueno, es que no solo se puede usar para eso, sino que puede solicitar la promoción de otros eventos de OSM. Como los SotM regionales o locales por país, o eventos de los capítulos oficiales de cada zona.

Para tu evento tendrás artes preparadas, entonces alista una imagen de 350x350 píxeles, en formato PNG, que no tenga nada importante arriba a la derecha 60x60 porque ahí se sobrepone la X de cerrar el banner y que tenga buen contraste con los colores Gray80 (Chinese Silver) y gris espacial (Spanish Gray) que son los colores de la X.

Tan solo se necesita hacer un fork del repositorio http://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website en tu propia cuenta de GitHub.

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I have contributed several days but my contribution calendar has not been updated. I wonder what can I do about it?