I may regret sharing this, but I have a very personal story I would like to tell. I hope it doesn’t get too long… Anyway… I was 20 years old when I was sent to erase a man from existence and became ha

The VI Gang Sign by Jon Beltran de Heredia, May 16th, 2007 Yes, even if you can't believe it, there are a lot fans of the 30-years-old vi editor (or its more recent, just-15-years-old, best clone & great improvement, vim). No, they are not dinosaurs who don't want to catch up with the times - the…

OSMF Chairperson's Annual Report for 2021 The year just past in review As of November 26, 2021, OpenStreetMap's statistics showed (percentages in parentheses indicate growth in the past year): Number of nodes 7,338,510,331 (+12%) Number of ways 818,534,800 (+13%) Number of relations 9,441,041 (+12%)…

10 years of... whatever this has been I guess I know something about train wrecks. One night when I was 10 years old, me and my mom were driving home. We came to a train crossing outside of town. There was another car stopped right on the tracks, stalled. A lady was inside, trying to get her car to…

This post is about a topic that i have wanted to write about for a long time and that has recently due to various developments in OpenStreetMap and in particular the OpenStreetMap Foundation become much more significant. These development are in particular the large scale donations the OSMF has…