I’m Amanda McCann. I’m a mapper and programmer originally for Ireland, but now based in Germany. I work at Geofabrik. (pronouns: english: she (or they), deutsch: „sie“)

I was on the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors Dec. 2019→Dec. 2022. I write up what I do in OSM on my OSM Diary.

I’m on the Communication WG, and I have lots of OSM stickers which we’ll send you for free. I started & admin the En.OSM.Town Mastodon/Fediverse server for the OSM community (See what’s being posted there, who’s active, sign up here).

I’m taking part in the Irish Historic Mapping Project, and created a site to show a map of the irish townlands we’ve added

Me on other websites:

• 🐘 Mastodon/Fediverse account: @amapanda@en.osm.town
• 🐦 @lalonde on Twitter
• View my OSM contributions via How Did You Contribute (hdyc)
• Amᵃᵖanda on the OpenStreetMap Wiki
• @Amanda#2524 on Discord, join the OSM World Discord
• amandasaurus on Github (all my openstreetmap projects on github)

In case your wondering, my username is in Ogham, an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language, and then a rainbow flag. It’s interesting to see what OSM software doesn’t follow open standards, and cannot handle unicode correctly. 😈 I currently cannot log into the OSM forum, or OSM help site

This is what the letters mean: ᚛ᚐ(Aᚋ(m)ᚐ(a)ᚅ(n)ᚇ(d)ᚐ(a)᚜

I changed my name in mid-2021, so you may have known me by an old name. 😉