This week in #geoweirdness we head back to Europe to examine the geographic oddities of Greece 🇬🇷 (officially the Hellenic Republic) 1/
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Worldwide, affordable geocoding and geosearch using open data. Since 2013. https://opencagedata.com We organize Geomob events/podcast: https://thegeomob.com Based in Germany, serving customers worldwide.
We've rolled out improved geocoding of IATA (airport ✈️) codes. https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/improved-iata-airport-code-search
RE: https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/117370910196721766 Fun times last night at Geomob Berlin
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Attached: 4 images We had another great evening last night in Berlin. #geomobBER Huge thanks to GeoIT https://geoit.org for organizing with us and SRH Uni for hosting us https://www.srh-university.de Here's our summary thread of the event ... 1/
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7/ The 🇹🇩 Chad / 🇳🇬 Nigeria border used to run entirely through open water in Lake Chad.
🎉 Today is the big day! In a few short hours 🇳🇬 Nigeria's new digital postcode system goes live! See: https://postcode.gov.ng Which is reason enough for us to make the African nation the subject of this week's #geoweirdness thread! 1/
39/ 🏁🏁🏁🏁 Time is up!!! The game is over. We will count up the final score #fridaygeotrivia
35/ Point to @ccferrie for Macao 🇲🇴 and Hong Kong 🇭🇰 #fridaygeotrivia
15/ absolute tsunami 🌊 of answers coming in. Be patient, we are working through them 🙏 #fridaygeotrivia
8/ Point! to @ccferrie for Bahrain 🇧🇭 and Qatar 🇶🇦 #Fridaygeotrivia
🚨 It's time for #fridaygeotrivia 🚨 The Sept 2026 question: Name country pairs that share a maritime border but no land border, separated by less than 50 km of water at their closest point, ie countries that can see each other. For example Singapore 🇸🇬 and Indonesia 🇮🇩. As always:
⏰ Just over an hour to go until #fridaygeotrivia - see you here, then!
RE: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/117304536251054065 Don’t forget- #fridaygeotrivia this Friday!
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Planning your week? Next Friday (🗓️ 25th) is the final Friday of the month, which, of course, means we will play #fridaygeotrivia As usual: 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 time / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 Full details on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-september-2026 We hope to see you here on the 25th
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Some more pics of our team offsite last week in London / at the Prime Meridian. https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/back-to-zero
Planning your week? Next Friday (🗓️ 25th) is the final Friday of the month, which, of course, means we will play #fridaygeotrivia As usual: 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 time / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 Full details on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-september-2026
Geotrivia - September 2026
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Today we‘re off the keyboard on a team expedition down the Thames in London 🇬🇧to visit the Prime Meridian in Greenwich before Geomob London this evening
This summer the Falkland Islands 🇫🇰 have been back in the news, so it's fitting that this week in #geoweirdness we take a closer look at the South Atlantic 🌊 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean#South_Atlantic 1/
As the years have passed, we've created lots of helpful content about geocoding generally and our service specifically on our site: FAQs, Tutorials, Guides, etc.
Huge map projection news: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa
UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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24/ Collectively though you should all hang your heads in shame for not finding Uruguay 🇺🇾 or Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 #fridaygeotrivia
21/ 🏁🏁🏁 The game is over, time to count the results and declare the winner.
18/ ⏱️ five more minutes to submit your answers before we call it #fridaygeotrivia
🚨 The game begins! 🚨 This month's #fridaygeotrivia question: Name countries where at least one permanent major river (300+ km) flows through the country or along its borders, but no major river rises within it.
90 minutes to go until this month's #fridaygeotrivia Just enough time to practice on the past questions: https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/fridaygeotrivia
OpenCage Geotrivia - played on the final Friday of each month
On the final Friday of the month we play #fridaygeotrivia - a real-time social media geo trivia contest
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RE: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/117160433976406874 Hope you can join us this afternoon for #fridaygeotrivia
OpenCage 👉🌍 (@opencage@en.osm.town)
🚨 Don't forget! 🚨 #fridaygeotrivia here on mastodon this Friday (28 Aug) at 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-august-2026 We hope you can join us!
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Potential geocoding customers often ask "how is your coverage in country X". The crowd-sourced nature of #OpenStreetMap can make this challenging to answer. So we now publish a "coverage report". Details on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geocoding-coverage-report
🚨 Don't forget! 🚨 #fridaygeotrivia here on mastodon this Friday (28 Aug) at 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-august-2026 We hope you can join us!
Geotrivia - August 2026
Blog > Monthly Geo Trivia questions
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