V22.1 is now released on the play store and our github repo see vespucci.io/help/en/22.1... #OpenStreetMap

Zürich #OpenStreetMap Stammtisch/meet up #190 next Tuesday the 11th of August osmcal.org/event/5019/

190. OSM-Stammtisch Zürich

190. OSM-Stammtisch Zürich, 11th August 18:30 – 22:00 at Bitwäscherei Zürich in Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. This is an informal, regular "ask-us-anything" meeting event from 18:30 in person. We'l...

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Anybody have a HP Proliant DL380p Gen 8 they are decommissioning? We would be a grateful recipient of such a donation. #OpenStreetMap

June 2026 Project of the month (PotM) community.openstreetmap.org/t/potm-ch-20... #OpenStreetMap

PotM CH 2026-05 - 2026-06 Gemeindeverwaltungen der Schweiz / Municipal Administrations of Switzerland / Administrations communales de Suisse

Das Projekt des Monats (PotM) ist zurück! Im aktuellen PotM für Mai und Juni 2026 stehen Gemeindeverwaltungen im Fokus. Ziel ist es, diese korrekt zu erfassen, zu überprüfen und zu ergänzen: Im Das...

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#OpenStreetMap -Znacht in Bern osmcal.org/event/4820/

OSM-Znacht in Bern

OSM-Znacht in Bern, 7th July 18:30 at TBD in Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Gemeinsames Nachtessen und Austausch (potenziell mit Schwerpunkt OpenStreetMap) in Bern. Die genaue Lokalität wird noch…

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Given that which cantonal data could we potentially use for #OpenStreetMap is a FAQ I've started a slightly more systematic list that what we have had previously www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPo...

Cantonal open data in Switzerland

[This is a work in progress, IANAL and this isnt legal advice]

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187th #OpenStreetMap Stammtisch Zürich osmcal.org/event/4741/

187. OSM-Stammtisch Zürich

187. OSM-Stammtisch Zürich, 11th May 18:30 – 21:30 at Bitwäscherei Zürich in Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. This is an informal, regular "ask-us-anything" event from 18:30 in person. We'll speak Ger...

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Dear members please don't forget our 2026 association meeting osmcal.org/event/4556/ You should have received the agenda with e-mail today.

And V22 has been tagged and will be making its way to usual places over the next couple of days. Thanks to everybody that provided feedback on the beta release! Release Notes vespucci.io/help/en/22.0... #OpenStreetMap

#OpenStreetMap diary post 101 www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPo...

Given the GERS fiasco, time to point to bsky.app/profile/simo... again.

Simon@simon.poole.ch · last yr.

Just your regular reminder that the @linuxfoundation.org Overture maps tool chains (aka the code to produce their data) are not #opensource software.

I've penned a short blog post on some revelations the Swiss #OpenStreetMap community has had over the last couple of weeks. If you so want a cautionary tale www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPo...

Our (the Swiss OSM communities) TIGER moment

OpenStreetMap old timers know about the infamous 2009 TIGER import of road data in the US that continues giving to this day. Our story has none of the, maybe deliberate, shenanigans (see the TIGER imp...

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We've updated our FAQ sosm.ch/modi-faq/ to the MODI bill to reflect changes in how swisstopo is positioning their Verkehrsnetz CH product in the run up to the guaranteed passing of the bill in this months parliamentary session. #MODI #OpenStreetMap

My comment on the OGC GERS standards proposal github.com/opengeospati... There is a lot that could be said from a technical pov and Paul Norman has touched on some of them. But the OMF is simply not an acceptable body for anything and that is where this discussion should stop. #OpenStreetMap

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Justification for the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) Framework as an OGC Community Standard · Issue #3 · opengeospatial/requests

details coming soon

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Ah yes digital sovereignty is when you bend over backwards to update google but can't be bothered to give the open alternative even just a heads up www.kaisten.ch/aktuellesinf... Anyway I think I've caught and updated all of the addresses in #OpenStreetMap , tricky because some of them got reused.

Der Fondue-Stammtisch in Zürich findet am Freitag 12. Dez. in einer Woche statt. Bitte meldet euch im Poll [1] bis nächsten Freitag an, wenn ihr kommen könnt. Für genug Fondue sollte gesorgt sein aber es vereinfacht die Planung wenn wir vorher schon wissen mit wie vielen Personen zu rechnen ist. ...

We've released V21.2, as our 'traditional' end-of-year release. There are some minor changes relative to the beta, most notably the addition of a warning if you are moving a way that has a majority of its nodes off screen. vespucci.io/help/en/21.2... #OpenStreetMap

#OpenStreetMap Z'nacht in Bern am 2. Dezember osmcal.org/event/4198/

Berner OpenStreetMap-Znacht

Berner OpenStreetMap-Znacht, 2nd December 19:00 at Yaadein, Bern in Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Zäme ässe und chli schwätze, potenziell mit OpenStreetMap-Schwärpunkt. Tragdi ii oder schick e Nachrich...

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Fixing a small notification bug when reversing a way with @vespucci_editor and taking the opportunity to add support for reversing conditional oneways. It is some of weirdest code in the app with lots of hardwired stuff, for example ...

Just spent a couple of hours converting old and half note worthy Framemaker documents from 91-93 to something readable. Among the bangers: multiple letters to regional PTT offices complaining about the multiple 1000s of CHFs we had to (illegally) pay in bonds to get phone lines in to our POPs, ...

To round off the #cloudFlareDown and #githubdown we had an hour long power outage this morning .... seriously considering getting a power station for the coffee machine because of that 😉

It speaks for my nerdy nitpicking nature 😉 that I continue to be annoyed that in 2002 the BAKOM (the Swiss telecoms regulator) modified the AEFV (the ordinance regulating address elements used in telecoms) to include domain names even though there was no legal base to do that. ...

November 1994 I did a company internal presentation on IPng (the competing proposals that would eventually give us IPv6), more than 30 years later I'm still exclusively using an IPv4 network at home ... sigh. #EUnet #Internet #Nostaliga

One of the depressing things about looking back to 88/89 is that is when open systems en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_sy... really started winning, networking and the #Internet being one of levers that worked in our favour. ...

"One of the main problems of the "Internet" today is that it is -near- to impossible to earn money from "non-connectivity" services. This is less a technology problem ..., it's just practically impossible to find a service to provide that somebody else is not doing for free." ...

In "stuff that I've forgotten", did I coin the term "transit" (in an ISP context)? diswww.mit.edu/menelaus.mit... probably not, though nobody else is using it. In any case a discussion that underlines how different the early Internet was from the fairy tales of today. #Internet #EUnet #Nostalgia

Very minor mystery: Does anybody know what happened with the UUCP maps for Switzerland in 1989/1990? That is likely u.che.0 and u.che.1. Up to 1989 Dietrich Wiegandt (who ran cernvax at CERN) posted them to comp.mail.maps, and from 1991 on I posted them from chsun (the CHUUG/EUnet Switzerland). ..

Have you ever noticed that when the invention of the WWW by @timbl.bsky.social is discussed CERN is in Switzerland, just to mysteriously change countries when the first Internet connection in the country is mentioned? Must be a quantum effect. #EUnet #Nostalgia

The next couple of weeks you are all going to have to suffer from a bout of Internet nostalgia from me as I dig through my archives. This is from a February 1993 mail that I sent to colleagues at other #EUnet national orgs asking for them to update the POP (50 total) list I was maintaining ...

Data spaces are now mainly a thing because the open data consulting business has run its course.