| Pronouns | She / Her |
| OSM | https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Codesurfer |
Linda Stevens has published “GIS and Geospatial 2025: A Year in Review”, summarizing the highlights and lowlights that shaped the past year in our industry – from the rise of geospatial #AI to pricing pressures. The piece offers a timely perspective on where the sector has progressed and where it continues to struggle as 2026 approaches.
Today's work lunch conversation was about duplicate place names. So naturally I looked at #OpenStreetMap to see how common it was (#postpass to the rescue!)
OK this is much more common than I thought. (This is all `place=*` excl `p=locality` & `=isolate_dwelling`)
We've created a way to display interactive maps in the browser, completely client-side! #gis #gischat
Drop your data in as #csv or #apache #parquet file, and your vector shapefile as a #geojson, and your map is ready to go!
It's hosted on #GitHub pages (so it's free!) but can be embedded anywhere
Tutorial:
https://odissei-soda.nl/tutorials/map-explorer/
Example:
https://sodascience.github.io/map-explorer/
(we tried out @penpot in the design process!)
Last weekend I gave a talk about OpenStreetMap and biking at the Madison Bike Advocacy Meetup. This is a monthly meeting of people interested in biking and local bike advocacy. The purpose of the talk was to give a high-level overview of what OpenStreetMap is, how it can be used for biking and bike advocacy, and how you can contribute to OpenStreetMap. About two-thirds of the audience had previously heard about OSM. I think the talk was well received and there were many questions during the...
Call for papers: Coding Earth — Open Source Solutions in Physical Geography for Progress in Physical Geography ⚡
Show how open-source tools, coding workflows, and open science are reshaping physical geography.
https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PDF/PPG_Coding_Earth_SI_CFP-1759916968.pdf
Deadline: 1 March 2026.
The Mapping USA Swag Shop is up! Lots of fun stuff, including bumper stickers: https://openstreetmap.us/events/mapping-usa/2026/#swag
New OSM Contribution Statistics Tool
OSM Wrapped - Version 1.0 released. Kennedy Kambi and Joseph-Munyenze's team has released a cool tool that visualizes your annual contributions to OSM using the #HDYC platform by @pascal_n.
Check it out and use #osmwrapped https://osmwrapped.com
#osmwrapped #osm #openStreetMap #gis #gischat #mapstodon #maps #contributor
Pierre Béland
Spatialists
Amᵃᵖanda | map data witch
Randal Hale (He/Him)
Erik-Jan
Harald Kliems
Jakub Nowosad
OSM US
Dragons8mycat