Ahoy!

Call for sessions for Everything Open is out and loud and proud!

Canberra, Australia

21-23 January 2026

https://2026.everythingopen.au/programme/proposals/

#OpenSource#OpenData#OpenScience
#OpenGovernment#OpenGLAM#OpenAccess#OpenEducation#OpenWeb
#OpenHardware#OpenStreetMap
#CreativeCommons
#EverythingOpen
#AllThingsOpen

Please boost.
Please propose a session.
Please discuss with friends and colleagues.

And yes! If you have an idea or a project to share, please go ahead and submit a session.

Your voice is unique and we want to hear it!

💡 Amis contributeurs d'#OpenStreetMap, connaissez-vous le #LIDAR ? C'est une technologie de télédétection par laser permettant, depuis un avion 🛩️, de créer une carte 3D très précise du terrain, même sous la végétation 🌳

🚀 Grâce à cette imagerie, vous pourrez tracer ou corriger / compléter le tracé de pistes, chemins, et cours d'eau qui sont habituellement masqués par mère nature.

👨‍💻 Le LIDAR est accessible dans l'éditeur ID. Pas vérifié dans #JOSM.

#️⃣ #OpenSource#LogicielsLibres#OSM#IGN

💡 Amis contributeurs d'#OpenStreetMap, connaissez-vous le #LIDAR ? C'est une technologie de télédétection par laser permettant, depuis un avion 🛩️, de créer une carte 3D très précise du terrain, même sous la végétation 🌳

🚀 Grâce à cette imagerie, vous pourrez tracer ou corriger / compléter le tracé de pistes, chemins, et cours d'eau qui sont habituellement masqués par mère nature.

👨‍💻 Le LIDAR est accessible dans l'éditeur ID. Pas vérifié dans #JOSM.

#️⃣ #OpenSource#LogicielsLibres#OSM#IGN

Just hit 4000 edit count on OSM. Does feels nice.

#openstreetmap

Just hit 4000 edit count on OSM. Does feels nice.

#openstreetmap

I had been wondering for some time if I was going about things the wrong way by doing #OpenStreetMap workshops (where I teach people to use iD) at #FOSS meetups and conferences.

While I’d also try to cover why #OSM is important and how to use it, most of the time was taken up in learning to edit…which seemed backward. Why would someone continue editing afterwards if they weren’t convinced of the importance of the project?

There was also another thought stewing in my head…most of the people who have attended our mapping parties, and all the people who are regular participants, are all big on #SoftwareFreedom and #privacy. Maybe we should try focusing more on software freedom, and promote OSM in that context?

With these ideas in mind and after discussions with @ravi, I decided to prepare a new talk - one focused on getting people to use some #Libre map apps (CoMaps, OsmAnd, and OsmApp). If we can convince people to do that, they’ll probably also start contributing data, and participating in mapping parties…

This time, I added a lot more screenshots in the hope of providing a more engaging experience. I’ve also been burned by conference WiFi all too often, so this time I made many screen capture videos instead of demonstrating websites or applications live.

I gave the talk at today’s FOSS Meetup Delhi. It was far from perfect, but at least I got a clear path towards improving it - I need to cut down the run time and some irrelevant content, so I can present it in 15 to 30 minutes depending on the situation. And of course, there are still more screenshots and video demos to be added.

https://codeberg.org/contrapunctus/osm-presentations/src/branch/production/foss-maps-and-why-you-should-use-them

(All presentations made with #Emacs , #OrgMode , and #RevealJS )

This time I also made sure to arrive early so I could understand how to extend the display using the projector, and use RevealJS’s speaker view. That way, I was able to use the slides to guide me without giving away what I was about to say, and I could speak first and let the slide summarize it afterwards.

Relying on the laptop to act as a teleprompter has its drawbacks, though…you want to be focused on the audience, not the screen. And you want to be free to move around…

#contraMaps#Delhi#India#FreeSoftware

Ahoy!

Call for sessions for Everything Open is out and loud and proud!

Canberra, Australia

21-23 January 2026

https://2026.everythingopen.au/programme/proposals/

#OpenSource#OpenData#OpenScience
#OpenGovernment#OpenGLAM#OpenAccess#OpenEducation#OpenWeb
#OpenHardware#OpenStreetMap
#CreativeCommons
#EverythingOpen
#AllThingsOpen

Please boost.
Please propose a session.
Please discuss with friends and colleagues.

And yes! If you have an idea or a project to share, please go ahead and submit a session.

Your voice is unique and we want to hear it!

I had been wondering for some time if I was going about things the wrong way by doing #OpenStreetMap workshops (where I teach people to use iD) at #FOSS meetups and conferences.

While I’d also try to cover why #OSM is important and how to use it, most of the time was taken up in learning to edit…which seemed backward. Why would someone continue editing afterwards if they weren’t convinced of the importance of the project?

There was also another thought stewing in my head…most of the people who have attended our mapping parties, and all the people who are regular participants, are all big on #SoftwareFreedom and #privacy. Maybe we should try focusing more on software freedom, and promote OSM in that context?

With these ideas in mind and after discussions with @ravi, I decided to prepare a new talk - one focused on getting people to use some #Libre map apps (CoMaps, OsmAnd, and OsmApp). If we can convince people to do that, they’ll probably also start contributing data, and participating in mapping parties…

This time, I added a lot more screenshots in the hope of providing a more engaging experience. I’ve also been burned by conference WiFi all too often, so this time I made many screen capture videos instead of demonstrating websites or applications live.

I gave the talk at today’s FOSS Meetup Delhi. It was far from perfect, but at least I got a clear path towards improving it - I need to cut down the run time and some irrelevant content, so I can present it in 15 to 30 minutes depending on the situation. And of course, there are still more screenshots and video demos to be added.

https://codeberg.org/contrapunctus/osm-presentations/src/branch/production/foss-maps-and-why-you-should-use-them

(All presentations made with #Emacs , #OrgMode , and #RevealJS )

This time I also made sure to arrive early so I could understand how to extend the display using the projector, and use RevealJS’s speaker view. That way, I was able to use the slides to guide me without giving away what I was about to say, and I could speak first and let the slide summarize it afterwards.

Relying on the laptop to act as a teleprompter has its drawbacks, though…you want to be focused on the audience, not the screen. And you want to be free to move around…

#contraMaps#Delhi#India#FreeSoftware

COSCUP 2025 議程回顧：【OpenStreetMap kah Wikidata ê 整合 - 台灣上新 ê 例】

Wikidata Taiwan 的長期參與者、OpenStreetMap 社群的參與者同時臺灣維基媒體協會理事長的 #Dennis 在 COSCUP 上分享目前社群的資料建設成果，自 2019 年 Wikidata Taiwan 社群成立以來社群致力維護 Wikidata 中臺灣基礎資料的完整性，過去已經完成了臺灣村里鄉鎮市行政區的建置以及戶役政代碼與 OpenStreetMap 的串聯；今年更完成了現行河川代碼與 Wikidata 、OpenStreetMap 的對照工作。

除此之外 Dennis 在臺灣台語的推動上也是不遺餘力，本次的講座介紹以臺灣台語寫成，同時也使用臺灣台語進行演說。想要了解更多臺灣資料的維護與建置，可以看 Wikidata 專案頁面或是持續關注社群媒體。

議程頁面：https://w.wiki/F6W6

#Wikidata #維基數據 #維基資料
#openstreetmap #開放街圖 #活動 #event
#COSCUP #開源人年會#COSCUP2025
#國立臺灣科技大學 #台科大 #研揚大樓
#臺北市 #大安區 #學府里
#臺灣台語
Natsu621, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

COSCUP 2025 議程回顧：【OpenStreetMap kah Wikidata ê 整合 - 台灣上新 ê 例】

Wikidata Taiwan 的長期參與者、OpenStreetMap 社群的參與者同時臺灣維基媒體協會理事長的 #Dennis 在 COSCUP 上分享目前社群的資料建設成果，自 2019 年 Wikidata Taiwan 社群成立以來社群致力維護 Wikidata 中臺灣基礎資料的完整性，過去已經完成了臺灣村里鄉鎮市行政區的建置以及戶役政代碼與 OpenStreetMap 的串聯；今年更完成了現行河川代碼與 Wikidata 、OpenStreetMap 的對照工作。

除此之外 Dennis 在臺灣台語的推動上也是不遺餘力，本次的講座介紹以臺灣台語寫成，同時也使用臺灣台語進行演說。想要了解更多臺灣資料的維護與建置，可以看 Wikidata 專案頁面或是持續關注社群媒體。

議程頁面：https://w.wiki/F6W6

#Wikidata #維基數據 #維基資料
#openstreetmap #開放街圖 #活動 #event
#COSCUP #開源人年會#COSCUP2025
#國立臺灣科技大學 #台科大 #研揚大樓
#臺北市 #大安區 #學府里
#臺灣台語
Natsu621, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bastian on why OpenStreetMap tools work well together and the ecosystem is a natural byproduct of the open, community based nature of the system.

https://tzovar.as/tool-diversity

#OpenStreetMap

I wasn't be able to found a lot of #dragons , Linux/BSD folks, niche hobbyists, my local hackspace (and knowledge about hackspace culture at all), music, films, books, etc at all.

I remember life without the Internet and it was shit life — one source of information (government backed TV), few friends, some books, some video cassetes and thats all. A lot of hobbies were very hard to start because there are no necessary books in bookstores, necessary materials weren't sold in usual stores and you simply didn't know about specialized stores in town.

BTW, our government periodically make "days without the Internet" to "protect" "citizens". And it is bad days — all plans to meet with friends and to buy some food in stores became broken, because we can't plan anything reliable without the information about closing hours, street jams, can't order some food for party, etc.

Luckily, the #OpenStreetMap and downloaded maps in #OsmAnd saved me. But I can't even buy the water because all stores here connected to the Internet to check special "excise marks" (QR codes unique for each bottle to trace it's path from factory to the consumer, and every sold item should have updated record in the main store's DB becaue … there are big fines for selling some items — alcohol, cigarettes, water, food for childs, juice, etc — without these QR codes).

I wasn't be able to found a lot of #dragons , Linux/BSD folks, niche hobbyists, my local hackspace (and knowledge about hackspace culture at all), music, films, books, etc at all.

I remember life without the Internet and it was shit life — one source of information (government backed TV), few friends, some books, some video cassetes and thats all. A lot of hobbies were very hard to start because there are no necessary books in bookstores, necessary materials weren't sold in usual stores and you simply didn't know about specialized stores in town.

BTW, our government periodically make "days without the Internet" to "protect" "citizens". And it is bad days — all plans to meet with friends and to buy some food in stores became broken, because we can't plan anything reliable without the information about closing hours, street jams, can't order some food for party, etc.

Luckily, the #OpenStreetMap and downloaded maps in #OsmAnd saved me. But I can't even buy the water because all stores here connected to the Internet to check special "excise marks" (QR codes unique for each bottle to trace it's path from factory to the consumer, and every sold item should have updated record in the main store's DB becaue … there are big fines for selling some items — alcohol, cigarettes, water, food for childs, juice, etc — without these QR codes).

💡 De mon POV, l'affichage carte de #GoogleMaps est pauvre, mal calibré, illisible, grossier, brouillon… rendant la projection spatiale laborieuse lors de la préparation d'un voyage.

❤️ Dans @openstreetmap / @osm_fr via, par exemple, @CoMaps, je comprends facilement où je vais mettre les pieds ; la richesse et la précision des infos affichées me permettent de me repérer très facilement, en réduisant au minimum les erreurs d'interprétation de l'environnement qui m'entoure.

#️⃣ #OSM#OpenStreetMap

💡 De mon POV, l'affichage carte de #GoogleMaps est pauvre, mal calibré, illisible, grossier, brouillon… rendant la projection spatiale laborieuse lors de la préparation d'un voyage.

❤️ Dans @openstreetmap / @osm_fr via, par exemple, @CoMaps, je comprends facilement où je vais mettre les pieds ; la richesse et la précision des infos affichées me permettent de me repérer très facilement, en réduisant au minimum les erreurs d'interprétation de l'environnement qui m'entoure.

#️⃣ #OSM#OpenStreetMap

>>> "Never forget that maps are power".

This month we're talking to @zverik about @everydoor#FLOSS on contributing to #OpenStreetMap, map maintenance & mapping points of interest.

Every Door is an #NGI0 @NGIZero grantee

----> Read the full interview:

https://www.apc.org/en/news/every-door-going-map-user-open-source-map-creator#NextGenerationInternet

>>> "Never forget that maps are power".

This month we're talking to @zverik about @everydoor#FLOSS on contributing to #OpenStreetMap, map maintenance & mapping points of interest.

Every Door is an #NGI0 @NGIZero grantee

----> Read the full interview:

https://www.apc.org/en/news/every-door-going-map-user-open-source-map-creator#NextGenerationInternet

OpenFreeMap

OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.

🗺️ https://openfreemap.org

#openfreemap #openstreetmap #maps #custom #forfree #webdev #python #js #opensource #webdesign #app #apps

Why does it need an app?? What does this app do that #OpenStreetMap couldnt?

Why dont you publish the location of these hotspots to OpenStreetMap, so users can find them easily and actually freely, without a phone and without a #Google account?

What is this??

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/wifi4eu-networks-maps

Is the location of these hotspots public knowledge and can be added to OpenStreetMap?

This is a bit absurd