Today Germany 🇩🇪 celebrates 35 years of reunification! A good reason to reshare our thread from a few years ago about German #geoweirdness Enjoy: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/111153946063870681

2/ As ever, over on the blog you can find: - the full list of our #OpenStreetMap and #OpenData efforts: https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/givingback - the full list of OSM interviews going back over 10 years:

Great news for PowerShell users, Allison Ragasa has published a PowerShell module for using our geocoding API Details on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/powershell-module-for-the-opencage-geocoding-api #powershell

2/ this is our 8th #OpenStreetMap interview of 2025, so we are almost keeping to our goal of one per month 💪 Who should we speak with next? As always, you can find all the interviews - including with many country or regional OSM communities - over on the blog:

54/ OK last call before we declare a winner. anyone have any more answers? #fridaygeotrivia

28/ BUT!!!! @[email protected] keeps pace with Kenya KE 🇰🇪 #fridaygeotrivia

⏰ Less than half an hour to go until we post this month's #fridaygeotrivia question

Don't forget - #fridaygeotrivia this afternoon (26th) at 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 time / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 Details: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-september-2025

This Friday is the final Friday of the month, which of course means we will play #fridaygeotrivia Join us here at 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 time / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 as we compete for the coveted emoji trophy 🏆

Today we’re at The Things Conference in Amsterdam, our very own @freyfogle will be speaking at 10:00 in Forum Two https://www.thethingsconference.com/agenda-2025/recozeye5qo3ahbyx See you there! #thethingsconference

The next edition of our long-running #OpenStreetMap interview series was just published. This time it was our pleasure to speak with Dustin Carlino, founder of A/B Street Ltd https://abstreet.uk - a consultancy building open source transportation planning tools on top of OSM data.

15/ That wraps up our #geoweirdness tour of the Philippines 🇵🇭, what did we miss? We have many more threads for other countries and regions and generally geoweird topics linked over on our blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads If you likes the Philippines you may also enjoy our look at

15/ That wraps up our #geoweirdness tour of the Philippines 🇵🇭, what did we miss? We have many more threads for other countries and regions and generally geoweird topics linked over on our blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads If you likes the Philippines you may also enjoy our look at

This week in #geoweirdness we keep our look at Southeast Asia going by turning our attention to the geographic oddities of the Philippines 🇵🇭 1/

2/ you can find all the #OpenStreetMap interviews (over 70, going all the way back to 2014!) over on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/osminterview

Great North Run apologises over ‘Newcastle map’ medals that actually show Sunderland https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/08/great-north-run-apologises-newcastle-map-medals-sunderland

Minor product update - we updated the data behind our NUTS (the 🇪🇺EU's *Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics*) data to the new 2024 set.

This week in #geoweirdness it's time for the next edition in our series about Southeast Asia. Today we're diving into another country with a rich history and surprising geographical features: 🇻🇳 Vietnam! 1/

This week in #geoweirdness it's time for the next edition in our series about Southeast Asia. Today we're diving into another country with a rich history and surprising geographical features: 🇻🇳 Vietnam! 1/

🎉 Two new SDKs to announce for our geocoding API: OCaml and Racket both written by our friend Rome Stone 🙌 Blog post: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/ocaml-and-racketlang-sdks-for-the-opencage-geocoding-api

Just a reminder - no #fridaygeotrivia today despite it being the final Friday of the month. We are taking a summer break. https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-august-2025 See you in September!

It is the final week of the month, so normally we would play #fridaygeotrivia this Friday, but this month we're taking a summer break. We will play again at the end of September (26th). Until then you can quiz yourself on the past questions: https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/fridaygeotrivia

This week we're on summer holiday, so no new #geoweirdness thread. But it's a perfect chance to catch up on the threads from the past, for example here's our look at the geographic oddities of South Africa 🇿🇦 https://en.osm.town/@opencage/110247462187801704

In this week's #geoweirdness thread, we launch a new series on Southeast Asia. A region known by many for its tourist attractions, including beaches, cuisine, and rich history, this 4-part series will cast it under a new light, a geoweird light. To kick things off, we start with 🇹🇭 Thailand! 1/

4/ But really if interviews about OpenStreetMap are your thing you will want to check out our blog where we have regularly been pubishing interviews with people from all across theglobal community for over 10 years now: https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/osminterview

🎂 Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap 🎂! This week the project celebrates 21 years 🥳🍾🎉 Well done everyone, congrats to all involved. #OpenStreetMap Reason enough or this week's geothread to be a compilation of resources for learning more about OSM 1/

27/ ⌛ 5 more minutes to play, then we will declare the winner #fridaygeotrivia

🚨 TIME FOR #fridaygeotrivia 🚨 This month's question: Name languages with official status (can be a minority language) in at least four countries. Name the countries. Example: English is an official language of India 🇮🇳, Fiji 🇫🇯, Jamaica 🇯🇲, and South Africa 🇿🇦 As always: - Only one

⏰ 30 min to go until we play #fridaygeotrivia Who will take home the coveted emoji trophy 🏆 this month?

Don't forget - this afternoon (1 Aug, 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 time / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11 am New York 🇺🇸) we play #fridaygeotrivia Details: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-july-2025 Join us!

Just a reminder - no #fridaygeotrivia today, we play next week on 🗓️ 1 Aug Details: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-july-2025 See you then

This week instead of #geoweirdness we post about a common support question we get from users of our geocoding API: why does our geocoding API allow only a single 1⃣ location query per API request? 1/

Our friend Adam DuVander (dev marketing guru, though sadly not yet here on masto) did a great write up of the thinking and work we did together when considering the options launching an MCP for our geocoding API https://everydeveloper.com/mcp-marketing/

Yesterday was Bastille Day, 🇫🇷 France's national holiday, “Le 14 Juillet”. “La fête nationale”. Many of us will be familiar with the history behind France’s famous national day, and so, with that in mind, rather than just resharing our French #geoweirdness thread - spoiler, it's really geoweird

Like to do your geocoding in typescript? Good news - v2 of our typescript SDK is now available: https://tsamaya.github.io/opencage-api-client/ Release notes: https://github.com/tsamaya/opencage-api-client/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Exciting French dependent territory news: "New Caledonia 🇳🇨 to be declared a state in ‘historic’ agreement – but will remain French 🇫🇷" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/13/new-caledonia-to-be-declared-a-state-in-historic-agreement-but-will-remain-french

The 4th of July is here, and what better way to celebrate the national day of the United States 🇺🇸 than reposting our monster thread about the #geoweirdness of each of the 50 states for your reading pleasure. Enjoy: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/113391076573486931

With the month just about to end, we just made it to publish the June entry in our #OpenStreetMap interview series. https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreetmap-interview-jochen-topf This time we talked with OSM veteran Jochen Topf about his efforts to broaden the level of financial support

58/ 🏁🏁🏁 That's it. Well played everyone. No new answers accepted. though will review to see if we missed any. Now we count up the scores ...

55/ 🚨 FIVE MORE MINUTES TO PLAY 🚨 before we tally up the scores. A very intense game so far.

43/ @[email protected] was first to discover Nukuʻalofa / Tonga 🇹🇴 #fridaygeotrivia Very nice.

🚨 Here we go - the June #fridaygeotrivia question 🚨 Name countries whose capital has a name (in English) longer than the common (not official) English country name. Example: Stockholm (9 letters) is longer than 🇸🇪 Sweden (6 letters). As always: - Only one answer per toot - You must include

⏰ Two minutes to until we post the #fridaygeotrivia question!

Don't forget, the June edition of #fridaygeotrivia is coming up in a mere three hours. See you there (by which of course we mean here) Details: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-june-2025

Some exciting Indian 🇮🇳 addressing news - recently India Post has announced the launch of DIGIPIN - 10-digit alphanumeric codes (12 characters when the two dashes are included) corresponding to 4mx4m squares. We have added DIGIPIN as a new annotation in our geocoding results and also support

Find yourself spending your time in LLMs and wishing you could geocode (without hallucinations)? We now offer an MCP which allows your LLM to call out to our geocoding API More details on the blog, as well as links to the full tutorial and the git

🚨 #fridaygeotrivia - It is said all roads lead to Rome 🇻🇦. But what is the longest road in terms of most countries crossed, while still taking a direct route? For example: Slovenia 🇸🇮 - Italy 🇮🇹 - Vatican 🇻🇦 is a chain of 3. Slovenia 🇸🇮 - Austria 🇦🇹 - Italy 🇮🇹 - Vatican 🇻🇦 (4)

90 minutes to go until #fridaygeotrivia See you here at 5pm Berlin time / 4pm London time / 11am New York time https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-may-2025

We keep iterating on our recently-launched spreadsheet geocoding service, here's a blog post discussing some of the recent improvements - most notably the ability to simply cut and paste a CSV and have us geocode it. https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/spreadsheet-upload-improvements

Don't forget - tomorrow (Friday, June 6th) #fridaygeotrivia returns See you here at 17:00 Berlin time / 4pm London / 11am New York https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-may-2025