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I have been at the State of the Map 2026 conference in Paris, France for the past few days and want to share a few impressions here.

Next weekend is going to be the State of the Map 2026 conference in Paris and i am going to present a talk and a poster there.

Another interesting recent topic of discussion in the OSM community has been on corporate influence on the project.

There is an interesting discussion going on in the OSMF run discourse instance on community.osm.org regarding regulation of use of LLMs in communcation there.

Populated places are probably among elements of human geography those you can most widely find represented in maps in general.

English version based on an automatic translation with Deepl.

English version based on an automatic translation with deepl.

I had written about non-locality in tiled rule based map rendering in general some time ago and that post gathered quite a bit of interest – including renewed interest in OSM-Carto development for problems where non-locality is a long known issue.

OpenStreetMap aims to collect world wide local geographic knowledge and create a map by the people for the people.

English version based on an automatic translation with deepl.