OpenStreetMap
species
- Mapper since:
- July 18, 2010
- Last map edit:
- September 11, 2025
Some people called me the OSM “Community coordinator” for my city of Graz and the state of Styria. From 2011 to 2019, I’ve organised regular OSM-Meetings in Graz, see here: wiki.osm.org/Graz/Stammtisch
I gave a lot of talks and workshops about OpenStreetMap on various conferences, university lectures and school projects. I once did commercial OSM projects for a living.
One outstanding project I supported was TransforMap.
Almost all of my talks, source code and project data can be found on Github: https://github.com/species/
I ran the Twitter account https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/osmgraz.
German
Ich organisierte 2011-2019 die OSM-Stammtische in Graz. osm.wiki/Graz/Stammtisch
Mein OSM-Wiki-Profil: osm.wiki/User:Species
Auf github gibts einen Haufen OSM-Vorträge von mir, die ich in den letzten Jahren bei diversen Gelegenheiten gehalten hab, sowie die Ergebnisse diverser Open (Government) Data-Projekte. Mein Github-Account: https://github.com/species/
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