September 25, 2026
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As i indicated before i want to write a bit about the situation of the OpenStreetMap Foundation before this year’s board election, which is going to happen from October 10 to October 17. This is not going to be substantially … Continue reading
September 24, 2026
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The title of this post is making a connection to my previous post titled Group communication is hard. Like in that post i am discussing a current matter of conversation in the OSM community. There is a discussion happening at … Continue reading
September 2, 2026
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I have been at the State of the Map 2026 conference in Paris, France for the past few days and want to share a few impressions here. I plan to make a separate post about my talk, this is more … Continue reading
August 24, 2026
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Next weekend is going to be the State of the Map 2026 conference in Paris and i am going to present a talk and a poster there. Do maps have a future in OpenStreetMap? The talk is going to be … Continue reading
August 6, 2026
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Another interesting recent topic of discussion in the OSM community has been on corporate influence on the project. The concern about corporate influence on OpenStreetMap is fairly old. For some time there had been substantial concern about a direct takeover … Continue reading
July 29, 2026
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There is an interesting discussion going on in the OSMF run discourse instance on community.osm.org regarding regulation of use of LLMs in communcation there. First a bit of background The OSMF in 2021 introduced a new behavior control framework for … Continue reading
June 23, 2026
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English version based on an automatic translation with Deepl. My (almost certainly) final post on the issue of FOSSGIS membership dues. As expected, yesterday’s virtual general meeting of the association approved the increase in dues. The only change adopted compared … Continue reading
June 18, 2026
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English version based on an automatic translation with deepl. Another update on the topic of FOSSGIS membership dues – see my previous posts on this topic here, here, and here. The virtual general meeting at which FOSSGIS is going to … Continue reading
May 22, 2026
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English version based on an automatic translation with deepl. I would like to supplement my previous discussion of FOSSGIS membership fees and, in a follow-up post, the association’s structure with an update on developments within FOSSGIS. As I had previously … Continue reading
May 1, 2026
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English version based on an automatic translation with deepl. Following the discussion about my post on FOSSGIS membership fees, it has become clear to me that my account – and especially the suggestions I made – are somewhat incomplete. I … Continue reading