OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026RE: mapstodon.space/@geomob/11737091019… Fun times last night at Geomob Berlinmapstodon.spaceGeomob (@geomob@mapstodon.space)Attached: 4 images We had another great evening last night in Berlin. #geomobBER Huge thanks to GeoIT https://geoit.org for organizing with us and SRH Uni for hosting us https://www.srh-university.de Here's our summary thread of the event ... 1/ 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 30/09/20267/ The 🇹🇩 Chad / 🇳🇬 Nigeria border used to run entirely through open water in Lake Chad. 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🎉 Today is the big day! In a few short hours 🇳🇬 Nigeria's new digital postcode system goes live! See: postcode.gov.ng Which is reason enough for us to make the African nation the subject of this week's #geoweirdness thread! 1/ 110
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/202639/ 🏁🏁🏁🏁 Time is up!!! The game is over. We will count up the final score #fridaygeotrivia 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/202635/ Point to @ccferrie for Macao 🇲🇴 and Hong Kong 🇭🇰 #fridaygeotrivia 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/202615/ absolute tsunami 🌊 of answers coming in. Be patient, we are working through them 🙏 #fridaygeotrivia 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/20268/ Point! to @ccferrie for Bahrain 🇧🇭 and Qatar 🇶🇦 #Fridaygeotrivia 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨 It's time for #fridaygeotrivia 🚨 The Sept 2026 question: Name country pairs that share a maritime border but no land border, separated by less than 50 km of water at their closest point, ie countries that can see each other. For example Singapore 🇸🇬 and Indonesia 🇮🇩. As always: 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1173320174759… 🚨 Ten minute warning! 🚨 #fridaygeotriviaen.osm.townOpenCage 👉🌍 (@opencage@en.osm.town)⏰ Just over an hour to go until #fridaygeotrivia - see you here, then! 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026⏰ Just over an hour to go until #fridaygeotrivia - see you here, then! 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 23/09/2026RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1173045362510… Don’t forget- #fridaygeotrivia this Friday!en.osm.townOpenCage 👉🌍 (@opencage@en.osm.town)Planning your week? Next Friday (🗓️ 25th) is the final Friday of the month, which, of course, means we will play #fridaygeotrivia As usual: 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 time / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 Full details on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-september-2026 We hope to see you here on the 25th 001
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Some more pics of our team offsite last week in London / at the Prime Meridian. blog.opencagedata.com/post/back-to-… 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 21/09/2026RE: mapstodon.space/@geomob/11730993884… Fun times last week in Londonmapstodon.spaceGeomob (@geomob@mapstodon.space)Attached: 2 images Time for our recap of last week's Geomob London. Many thanks to Geovaton for hosting us and to everyone who came along. 1/n #geomobLON 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Planning your week? Next Friday (🗓️ 25th) is the final Friday of the month, which, of course, means we will play #fridaygeotrivia As usual: 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 time / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 Full details on the blog: blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivi…blog.opencagedata.comGeotrivia - September 2026Blog > Monthly Geo Trivia questions 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Today we‘re off the keyboard on a team expedition down the Thames in London 🇬🇧to visit the Prime Meridian in Greenwich before Geomob London this evening 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This summer the Falkland Islands 🇫🇰 have been back in the news, so it's fitting that this week in #geoweirdness we take a closer look at the South Atlantic 🌊 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocea… 1/ 200
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 05/09/2026As the years have passed, we've created lots of helpful content about geocoding generally and our service specifically on our site: FAQs, Tutorials, Guides, etc. 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Huge map projection news: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/…theguardian.comUN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scaleTogo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 02/09/2026RE: en.osm.town/@openstreetmap/11720157… 👏👏👏👏en.osm.townOpenStreetMap (@openstreetmap@en.osm.town)New on the OpenStreetMap Blog: Thanking Proton, our newest Platinum sponsor https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2026/08/21/thanking-proton-our-newest-platinum-sponsor/ 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/202624/ Collectively though you should all hang your heads in shame for not finding Uruguay 🇺🇾 or Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 #fridaygeotrivia 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/202621/ 🏁🏁🏁 The game is over, time to count the results and declare the winner. 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/202618/ ⏱️ five more minutes to submit your answers before we call it #fridaygeotrivia 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/2026🚨 The game begins! 🚨 This month's #fridaygeotrivia question: Name countries where at least one permanent major river (300+ km) flows through the country or along its borders, but no major river rises within it. 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/202690 minutes to go until this month's #fridaygeotrivia Just enough time to practice on the past questions: blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/friday…blog.opencagedata.comOpenCage Geotrivia - played on the final Friday of each monthOn the final Friday of the month we play #fridaygeotrivia - a real-time social media geo trivia contest 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/2026RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1171604339764… Hope you can join us this afternoon for #fridaygeotriviaen.osm.townOpenCage 👉🌍 (@opencage@en.osm.town)🚨 Don't forget! 🚨 #fridaygeotrivia here on mastodon this Friday (28 Aug) at 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-august-2026 We hope you can join us! 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Potential geocoding customers often ask "how is your coverage in country X". The crowd-sourced nature of #OpenStreetMap can make this challenging to answer. So we now publish a "coverage report". Details on the blog: blog.opencagedata.com/post/geocodin… 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 26/08/2026🚨 Don't forget! 🚨 #fridaygeotrivia here on mastodon this Friday (28 Aug) at 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivi… We hope you can join us!blog.opencagedata.comGeotrivia - August 2026Blog > Monthly Geo Trivia questions 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/08/2026In today's episode of why geocoding is hard ... #maketheinsanitystop 010
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 21/08/2026RE: mastodon.social/@mtmail/11713256983… In today's episode of why geocoding is hard ....mastodon.socialmtmail (@mtmail@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image Pranksters switched signs of Lorch and Lorsch (2h drive, 180km distance) https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/badenwuerttemberg/swr-lorch-wird-lorsch-und-umgekehrt-unbekannte-vertauschen-ortsschilder-100.html 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Last week in #geoweirdness we published our "Guide to the Guineas", this week we take on another confusing set of countries. 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This week in #geoweirdness we crack open a topic of continual confusion. Welcome to our "Guide to the Guineas" 101
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 11/08/2026tja www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/…zeit.deAbhängigkeit von US-Diensten: Großteil deutscher Unternehmen ist abhängig von US-DigitalanbieternDas ifo Institut hat Unternehmen nach ihrer Abhängigkeit von US-Digitaldiensten befragt. Viele halten sie für groß, die Risikobewertung dessen fällt unterschiedlich aus. 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 10/08/20264/ You may not be aware, but OpenCage was a spin off of a company called Lokku. At Lokku we ran the real estate search engine Nestoria which - all the way back in October 2006 (20 years ago!!!!) - was the first ever commercial use of #OpenStreetMap 200
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Happy 22nd Birthday #OpenStreetMap !!! 🎂🍾🥳 Our business would not be possible without OSM, a big thank you to everyone in the community 🙏 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The Spanish enclave of Ceuta is in the news today, so for this week’s #geoweirdness we‘ll reshare our threads about 🇪🇸 Spain en.osm.town/@opencage/1105649804614… and 🇲🇦 Morocco en.osm.town/@opencage/1124570041127…en.osm.townOpenCage 👉🌍 (@opencage@en.osm.town)Attached: 1 image This week in #geoweirdness we return to the Iberian peninsula to consider the geographic oddities of Spain 🇪🇸 1/n 010
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Just a reminder - no #fridaygeotrivia this month due to a summer break. Meanwhile you can test yourself on all the past questions blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/friday… We've now been playing every month for more than 5 years! 🥳🙌 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Last time in #geoweirdness we covered Czechia 🇨🇿 a country that emerged following the peaceful split of Czechoslovakia. History is full of countries dissolving, but there are also many examples of countries agreeing to merge! 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 16/07/2026We did a visual refresh of our GDPR page to hopefully make things easier to scan. We detail the changes on the blog: blog.opencagedata.com/post/gdpr-ref… 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 15/07/2026🚨 Some breaking #geoweirdness border dispute news 🚨 Last night at midnight local time the last frontier fence in western Europe - between Gibraltar 🇬🇮🇬🇧 and Spain 🇪🇸 - was removed! 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 14/07/2026RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1099300449046… Happy Bastille Day! To celebrate here's our #geoweirdness thread about the delightful geographic complexities of France 🇫🇷en.osm.townOpenCage 👉🌍 (@opencage@en.osm.town)Attached: 1 image A big welcome to all our new followers from recent days. Once a week we do a thread about geo stuff, this week we turn our attention to one of the most geographically strange countries of them all: France 🇫🇷 Join us for this week's #geoweirdness thread 1/n 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Let's close out the week with a #geoweirdness thread. This time we head back to Europe to consider the geographic oddities of the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 1/ 110
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/202630/ Thanks everyone for playing #fridaygeotrivia answers will be up on the blog in a few days. We will take a summer break at the end of July and be back in August. Meanwhile you can test yourself on past questions: blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/friday…blog.opencagedata.comOpenCage Geotrivia - played on the final Friday of each monthOn the final Friday of the month we play #fridaygeotrivia - a real-time social media geo trivia contest 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/202628/ 🏁🏁🏁 TIME IS UP!!!! 🏁🏁🏁 This month's game is over. Now we count up the score ... #fridaygeotrivia 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/202618/ Sorry, many answers to work through. The fact checking / field surveying team is working their way through them, one by one #fridaygeotrivia 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/2026🚨 Here we go - it's time for #fridaygeotrivia 🚨 This month's question: Name countries where a single river acts as an international border with at least two different neighboring countries. Name the countries and the river. 100
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/2026RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1168562414922… 15 min to go!en.osm.townOpenCage 👉🌍 (@opencage@en.osm.town)⏰ Less than two hours to go until #fridaygeotrivia We will post the question here at 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 See you then! 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/2026⏰ Less than two hours to go until #fridaygeotrivia We will post the question here at 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 See you then! 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 02/07/2026RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1168159489599… Don't forget - tomorrow (3 July) we play #fridaygeotriviaen.osm.townOpenCage 👉🌍 (@opencage@en.osm.town)It is the final Friday of the month, and normally that would mean #fridaygeotrivia this afternoon but due to various conflicts it is not possible. Sorry. We will push back by one week to play on Friday, 3rd of July at the usual time: 17:00 Berlin 🇩🇪 / 4pm London 🇬🇧 / 11am New York 🇺🇸 Details / Rules on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-june-2026 We hope you can join us next week! 000
OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Some fantastic #geoweirdness news - Canada 🇨🇦 to join Eurovision www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/20… The Eurovision Song Contest contest will now feature participants from Europe (obvs.), Oceania 🇦🇺, North America 🇨🇦, and Asia 🇮🇱theguardian.comCanada to join Eurovision song contest from 2027Country is first to join since Australia in 2015 as event director says it ‘continues to welcome the world’ 000