Hi, many years ago at SotMs there used to be a track of talks in which the speaker would present the state of OSM in their country or region - the community, the unique challenges, etc. I always really enjoyed those talks because they were a chance to learn about the diversity of the world while also reminding us that we're all the same in our desire to create a great and open map.
Like the vast majority of OSMers I won't be able to attend SotM this year (though I will be at WhereCamp Berlin please say hello if you're there), but I'm fortunate to have a job that lets me work on OSM. I'm one of the people behind the OpenCage geocoder: http://geocoder.opencagedata.com We thought we'd revive the country report tradition by interviewing people from the different communities on our blog. We've done a few now, listed below. Hope you enjoy them, and if you'd like to tell the world about OSM in our part of the world we'd love to hear from you enjoy, Ed The interviews so far: Indonesia: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/100941606733/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-indonesia Basque Country: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/100820580653/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-the-basque Bangladesh: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/99749986348/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-bangladesh Ireland: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/99554636383/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-ireland Chile: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/98916200238/country-profile-state-of-openstreetmap-in-chile Scotland: http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/98216589988/open-geo-interview-series-state-of-osm-in-scotland We also do interviews in general with anyone doing interesting things in open geo data generally or OSM specifically. See http://blog.opencagedata.com Final note - would especially love to interview anyone who's done on the ground mapping in Antarctica or similarly remote place.
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