47/ 🏁🏁🏁 OK, time is up! (I need to go meet some friends for dinner). Now we tally up the final score count ... #fridaygeotrivia

🚨 Time for #fridaygeotrivia 🚨 Name countries that have an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code which does not start with the same letter as the common English version of the country’s name. For example: 🇩🇪 Germany (DE)

🚨 Final warning 🚨 - 5 minutes until we post this month's #fridaygeotrivia question!

Less than an hour to go! #fridaygeotrivia https://en.osm.town/@opencage/115626423673659677

Don’t forget- this afternoon (17:00 Berlin time /4pm London time) we play #fridaygeotrivia Join us! Details / Rules / Prizes: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-november-2025

Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrate in the traditional way by re-sharing our #geoweirdness thread about Turkey 🇹🇷 https://en.osm.town/@opencage/110326676703792569 Enjoy!

The month is drawing to a close, which means we will play #fridaygeotrivia this Friday. The question will be posted the same time as always: 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11 am New York 🇺🇸 Full details / rules / prizes: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-november-2025

Was a very enjoyable evening last night at Geomob Berlin https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/115582179886585351

We are delighted to be able to sponsor GeoCamp / SotMes which is coming up on Dec 13th in Zaragoza 🇪🇸 Thank you to the our customers of making it possible 🙏 https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/sponsoring-geocampes-2025 Event details: https://2025.geocamp.es/ #OpenStreetMap #GeocampES #SotMes

24/ Thanks everyone for playing - we will put the answers up on the blog this weekend. See you again at the end of November #fridaygeotrivia

20/ ⏰ 5 more minutes to play #fridaygeotrivia

13/ Come on people. Keep in mind re-denomination counts! #fridaygeotrivia

9/ It's time to think outside the Euro people. Lots of other countries changes currencies. Hint - I would expect our Dutch friends to know this

⏰ 15 minutes to go until we post the #fridaygeotrivia question! Get ready

Only a bit more than 4 hours to go until #fridaygeotrivia https://en.osm.town/@opencage/115502330462874707

Don't forget - tomorrow (Friday, Nov 7th) we will play #fridaygeotrivia at 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 time / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am NYC 🇺🇸 Hope you can join us. Details, as always, over on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-october-2025

Normally we would play #fridaygeotrivia this coming Friday since it is the final Friday of the month, but due to some travel we will push things back by a week and instead play on 🗓️ Friday, Nov 7th https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-october-2025

We present for your weekend reading pleasure ... the latest edition to our #OpenStreetMap interview series is a discussion with Mikhail Kuzin, one of the makers of OSMPIE (the OpenStreetMap Perfect Intersection Editor), a new OSM editor for the challenging task of editing road intersections.

In most of the northern hemisphere it is almost time ⏲️ to turn the clocks back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

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