November 19, 2025
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Two weeks ago i participated in the OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe. I was not able to take part in many OpenStreetMap related in-person meetings in recent years due to a mixture of lack of budget and scheduling conflicts. So … Continue reading
September 17, 2025
by chris
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This blog post is not about what you likely think it is about based on the title. I am not going to analyze the structure of the formal membership of the OSMF with its (based on the latest numbers) 2696 … Continue reading
July 23, 2025
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The OSMF has recently extended the set of map layers on the OpenStreetMap website. And since none of the map designs of the two new layers has been discussed in my review of the state of map design in OpenStreetMap … Continue reading
June 22, 2025
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We have summer starting on the northern hemisphere these days – and with that comes, in many parts of Europe and North America, the season of frequent thunderstorms. In OpenStreetMap there currently is a different kind of storm brewing of … Continue reading
October 25, 2024
by chris
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Just wanted to share an observation about public communication of the OpenStreetMap Foundation from the last year: What do these all have in common? That they are not based on OpenStreetMap data. I have written about the practical problems of … Continue reading
September 29, 2024
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The elections for the board of the OpenStreetMap Foundations are upcoming and the most interesting part of this for the OSMF members has traditionally started with the publications of the self-presentations of the candidates, which happened during the last days. … Continue reading
September 10, 2024
by chris
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State of the Map 2024 took place in Nairobi last weekend. I did not attend, although i tried to get an idea by watching some of the video streams. With tried being the operative word here – the streaming infrastructure … Continue reading
July 17, 2024
by chris
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Five years ago i wrote about the 15th anniversary of OSM and my outlook into the next fifteen years. We now have the 20th anniversary. This is a bit early to review my predictions (with merely 1/3 of the time … Continue reading
April 20, 2024
by chris
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After having looked at the history of digital map design in general in the first part of this short series and at the current situation of map design in OpenStreetMap in the second part, i am now, in this last … Continue reading
February 4, 2024
by chris
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As i have indicated in my pre-AGM comment end of last year i intend to look at developments in the OpenStreetMap Foundation less on an acute level and regarding current events and more focus on long term developments, trying to … Continue reading