My name is Florian Lohoff and by todays standards i am an OpenStreetmap oldtimer. Used to be Linux Kernel Hacker, Debian Developer and other Open Source stuff. Mapping since 2008 in mostly Germany. From 2008 to 2026 found continously in the top 50 Mappers in Germany. See HDYC for statistics of my mapping activity. Professional use of OpenStreetmap since 2010 for emergency call routing, address search etc.

Building up community since 2008 in Ostwestfalen-Lippe - the eastern part of Northrhine-Westfalia - Admin of the mailinglist for OWL osm@gt.owl.de

Participated in Tiles At Home, the tile rendering infrastructure based on XSLT and SVG called osmarender. (For the Kids - Osmarender was the stuff we had before mapnik, that we had before vector tiles)

Implemented numerous tools for quality assurance and analysis of OpenStreetmap data. See osm.zz.de Author and Admin of the NoteIsDue Bot and the Route Quality Assurance.

Mostly interested in Addresses and Routing. I dont like micromapping abuses. I prefer semantics over look.

Prefer mapping from Imagery. Long time mapillary contributor with nearly 1 Mio images and 7400km or ways photographed. Photo or it never happened.

For code and tools see Github or my Gitlab

See my blog or only the osm specific posts also aggregated on blogs.openstreetmap.de.

Reach me at: f@zz.de