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katpatuka

Mapper since:
October 26, 2007
Last map edit:
December 19, 2025

german, having grown up in Mülheim/Ruhr, spent some 20 years in Bonn, now living in Avanos, Turkey. Mainly mapping undermapped countries® (especially Turkey and China) and adding lots of lakes and rivers…

Latest Diaries

Diary Entry created a small josm preset for the 2023 Turkey earthquake for use with HOT

I’ve created a small josm preset for the 2023 Turkey earthquake for use with HOT mapping. If something is missing go and edit the preset ;)

Comments 1 comment Date February 14, 2023

Diary Entry Update of Fengtinghe Reservoir in Guangxi, PRC

I’ve updated Fengtinghe Reservoir (凤亭河水库) today with the help of josm’s scanaerial plugin using ESRI imagery and additionally added parts manually ...

Comments 1 comment Date July 21, 2020

Diary Entry Six months busy in Sichuan

I think I was really 6 months busy in Sichuan adding missing towns, townships and subdistricts with their English name and wikipedia/wikidata tags....

Comments 6 comments Date June 26, 2020

Diary Entry Afghanistan district boundaries added in one month

it took a month to add 99 percent of all district boundaries of Afghanistan. Only problem left is the fate of Darwaz district which I couldn’t deci...

Comments 5 comments Date September 28, 2016