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OpenCage 👉🌍

This month OpenStreetMap - the global crowdsourced open geodata project - celebrates its 19th birthday 🎂🎉, so the next few weeks our #geoeducation threads will focus on the amazing OSM community.

Our geocoding API is built on OpenStreetMap, and for many years now we've been interviewing OpenStreetMap communities small and large over on our blog.

Join us on a virtual trip to see how OSM works around the world 🌎🌍🌏
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#OpenStreetMap #geoeducation

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OpenCage 👉🌍

2/ One of coolest things about OpenStreetMap is that the world is such a geographically and culturally diverse place, and yet we all contribute to the same open database.

Sounds obvious, but really how many examples of truly global cooperation are there? 👨👩‍🦱👩🏾‍🦱👳🏼‍♀️👩🏼‍🦰🧑🏾‍🦱🧓🏾

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3/ So buckle up, let's go.

OpenStreetMap started in the UK 🇬🇧, so let's start there!

We've had the chance to talk with OSMers in:

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 blog.opencagedata.com/post/982
and Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope
but also much smaller places like Bexhill, England
blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope

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5/ We also spoke with OSMers in Belgium 🇧🇪 @osm_be

blog.opencagedata.com/post/144

They are a very active community, and are this year hosting State of the Map Europe @sotmeu in Antwerp 10-12th of November (We're proud to be sponsors)

#OpenStreetMap

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7/ From Africa we sail ⛵ west to South America where we've learned about OpenStreetMap in

• 🇦🇷 Argentina blog.opencagedata.com/post/163
• 🇧🇷 Brazil blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope
• 🇨🇱 Chile blog.opencagedata.com/post/989 and more

...

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8/ Making our way north from there we've had the pleasure of interviewing OpenStreetMappers from

• 🇲🇽 Mexico blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope
• 🇨🇺 Cuba blog.opencagedata.com/post/144
• 🇳🇮 Nicaragua blog.opencagedata.com/post/138
• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica blog.opencagedata.com/post/154

...

8/ Making our way north from there we've had the pleasure of interviewing OpenStreetMappers from

• 🇲🇽 Mexico blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope
• 🇨🇺 Cuba blog.opencagedata.com/post/144
• 🇳🇮 Nicaragua blog.opencagedata.com/post/138
• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica blog.opencagedata.com/post/154

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9/ Continuing northward to the 🇺🇸 United States we've chatted with prolific OSMers like @mvexel about OpenStreetMap in Utah blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope and @cbed about OSM in Montana blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope

...

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10/ Crossing the Pacific we head to the Asia/Pacific region, where we've heard from OSM communities in

• 🇰🇷 Korea: blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope
• 🇮🇩 Indonesia blog.opencagedata.com/post/100
• 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka blog.opencagedata.com/post/159
• 🇧🇩 Bangladesh blog.opencagedata.com/post/997
• 🇮🇷 Iran: blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope

#OpenStreetMap

10/ Crossing the Pacific we head to the Asia/Pacific region, where we've heard from OSM communities in

• 🇰🇷 Korea: blog.opencagedata.com/post/ope
• 🇮🇩 Indonesia blog.opencagedata.com/post/100
• 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka blog.opencagedata.com/post/159
• 🇧🇩 Bangladesh blog.opencagedata.com/post/997
• 🇮🇷 Iran:

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11/ We hope our interviews help show off the diversity of the worldwide OpenStreetMap community. Every region of the world has unique challenges and pleasures.

Hopefully the interviews also remind us we're all working towards the same goal - a shared global map 🌎🌍🌏🗺️👐

You can see the full list of all our OSM interviews here:
blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/o

#OpenStreetMap #geoeducation

OpenCage 👉🌍 replied to OpenCage

12/ Obviously there are many, many more OpenStreetMap communities large and small all around the world than those we've had the chance to speak with so far.

Please get in touch if you'd like to share your local story on our blog 🙏🏾

We'd love to hear from you: opencagedata.com/contact

#OpenStreetMap #geoeducation

OpenCage 👉🌍 replied to OpenCage

13/ BTW if you like these interviews you may also enjoy the many OpenStreetMap related episodes over on the Geomob podcast:
thegeomob.com/podcast/tags/ope

#geomobpod #OpenStreetMap

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