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Hi! OpenStreetMap-person, developer of MapComplete.

This is my experimental blog; see my main mastodon for my breviloquia.

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  • Response to “Why Book Corners won’t sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap”

    Hi all, There was a bit of a stir on Hacker News recently around bookcorners.org – yet another website to register public bookcases. I’m a heavy OpenStreetMap-contributor and made an OpenStreetMap-editor called MapComplete, which you can use to add public bookcases into OpenStreetMap (but it contains many other thematic maps as well). I’m writing this […]

  • An overview of reviews made with MapComplete – 2026 edition

    The yearly overview of made reviews is long overdue, so time for an update. First of all, there are nearly 4700 reviews in https://mangrove.reviews nowadays; generated by around 33 pieces of client software: Client Count Total (33 categories) 4695 mapcomplete.org (*) 1746 mangrove.reviews 1188 Unknown/not reported 688 localhost 417 toggenburg.swiss 287 thurgau-bodensee.ch 92 ostschweiz.ch 77 […]

  • Lespakket

    Binnen het kader van mijn Masterpratijkproef werkten we een lespakket uit waarin OpenStreetMap (mbv MapComplete) in de les wordt gebruikt. De focus ligt op het in kaart brengen van een inclusieve omgeving. Het resulterende lespakket – ontwikkeld voor het 5de en 6de middelbaar (maar vanaf het 3de inzetpaar) – kan hier (gratis) gevonden worden. Documenten […]

  • Slideshow of the ‘Intro to OpenStreetMap’-talk

    Hi, If you’ve attended one of my talks, you can find them here: https://pietervdvn.me/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/0.-Introduction-What-is-Openstreetmap.odp

  • An overview of reviews made with MapComplete – 2025 edition

    Two years ago, I did an analysis on the reviews made with mangrove.reviews – you can find this analysis here. In this blog, I’ll basically do the same analysis as then, but just with the latest data (as of 28 febr 2025). As is visible, about one third of all reviews came from mapcomplete, only […]