mtmail
- Mapper since:
- May 27, 2007
- Last map edit:
- August 10, 2026
Cofounder OpenCage. Software engineer. Geocoding. Cycling. Speaker at several SOTM conferences.
Managed to survey a whole city (10x10km) in a four month project by walking and cycling every street, paths and taking lots of photos.
2024 managed a streak of 363 mapping days (unlikely to continue at that rate).
Interested in timezones, elevation, ocean/sea, disputed border data and general tagging validation tools.
Cleaning up postcodes all over the world (those too long, too short, in the wrong area).
Finding street names (addr:street) that contain house numbers.
If you have spare time try
Latest Diaries
Diary Entry New validation rule: Suspicious addr:state value
The Nominatim QA tool added a new layer “Suspicious addr:state value” If addr:state is the same addr:province. Depending on country addr:provin...
Diary Entry Cleaning up US postcodes
Or zip codes as they’re called in the United States. The Nominatim geocoder has trouble parsing address queries when its OSM database table contai...