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Worldwide, affordable geocoding and geosearch using open data. Since 2013. opencagedata.com We organize Geomob events/podcast: thegeomob.com Based in Germany, serving customers worldwide.

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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RE: mapstodon.space/@geomob/11737091019… Fun times last night at Geomob Berlin
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Geomob (@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/
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
7/ The 🇹🇩 Chad / 🇳🇬 Nigeria border used to run entirely through open water in Lake Chad.
Map showing the site of Lake Chad - Chad / Nigeria borderzoomed in map of the Chad Nigeria borderHistoric map of the Chad NIgeria border

By US DOS - https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1nPDqvXyX_0C&pg=PA11-IA24&dq=International+Boundary+Study+No.+90+%E2%80%93+Chad+Nigeria+Boundary&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo-4_Gn5_nAhUSE8AKHXf6C9kQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q&f=true, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94219799
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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/
Map of Nigeriascreenshot of the NIPost website with countdown to the launch of digital postcodes
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
39/ 🏁🏁🏁🏁 Time is up!!! The game is over. We will count up the final score #fridaygeotrivia
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
35/ Point to @ccferrie for Macao 🇲🇴 and Hong Kong 🇭🇰 #fridaygeotrivia
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
15/ absolute tsunami 🌊 of answers coming in. Be patient, we are working through them 🙏 #fridaygeotrivia
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
8/ Point! to @ccferrie for Bahrain 🇧🇭 and Qatar 🇶🇦 #Fridaygeotrivia
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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:
Map showing Singapore across the water from Indonesia
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1173320174759… 🚨 Ten minute warning! 🚨 #fridaygeotrivia
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OpenCage 👉🌍 (@opencage@en.osm.town)
⏰ Just over an hour to go until #fridaygeotrivia - see you here, then!
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
⏰ Just over an hour to go until #fridaygeotrivia - see you here, then!
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1173045362510… Don’t forget- #fridaygeotrivia this Friday!
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OpenCage 👉🌍 (@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
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some more pics of our team offsite last week in London / at the Prime Meridian. blog.opencagedata.com/post/back-to-…
OpenCage team at the Prime MeridianDinner with some friends and advisorsabout to head back up the Thames
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
RE: mapstodon.space/@geomob/11730993884… Fun times last week in London
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Geomob (@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
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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: blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivi…
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Geotrivia - September 2026
Blog > Monthly Geo Trivia questions
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today 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
“River” tube signSome of the team preparing to embark
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This 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/
Argentine players at the world cup holding a banner that reads "Las Malvinas son Argentinas" (The Malvinas are Argentinian)Map showing the Atlantic ocean, with North Atlantic and South Atlantic labeled
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As 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.
screenshot of OpenCage site search
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Huge map projection news: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/…
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UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
RE: en.osm.town/@openstreetmap/11720157… 👏👏👏👏
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OpenStreetMap (@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/
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
24/ Collectively though you should all hang your heads in shame for not finding Uruguay 🇺🇾 or Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 #fridaygeotrivia
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
21/ 🏁🏁🏁 The game is over, time to count the results and declare the winner.
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
18/ ⏱️ five more minutes to submit your answers before we call it #fridaygeotrivia
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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.
map of Egypt
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
⏱️ 5 minute warning until #fridaygeotrivia
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
90 minutes to go until this month's #fridaygeotrivia Just enough time to practice on the past questions: blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/friday…
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OpenCage Geotrivia - played on the final Friday of each month
On the final Friday of the month we play #fridaygeotrivia - a real-time social media geo trivia contest
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1171604339764… Hope you can join us this afternoon for #fridaygeotrivia
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OpenCage 👉🌍 (@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!
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Potential 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…
screenshot of the OpenCage geocoding API coverage report
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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!
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Geotrivia - August 2026
Blog > Monthly Geo Trivia questions
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In today's episode of why geocoding is hard ... #maketheinsanitystop
Trump posts "The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America ...."
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@mtmail/11713256983… In today's episode of why geocoding is hard ....
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mtmail (@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
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Last week in #geoweirdness we published our "Guide to the Guineas", this week we take on another confusing set of countries.
Map of central Asia showing "the 'stans"Map of "Stanistan"

By M.Bitton - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=143150988
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This week in #geoweirdness we crack open a topic of continual confusion. Welcome to our "Guide to the Guineas"
Map of West Africa showing Guinea-Bissau and GuineaMap of south America showing Guyana and French GuianaMap of Papua New GuineaMap showing Equatorial Guinea
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
tja www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/…
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Abhängigkeit von US-Diensten: Großteil deutscher Unternehmen ist abhängig von US-Digitalanbietern
Das ifo Institut hat Unternehmen nach ihrer Abhängigkeit von US-Digitaldiensten befragt. Viele halten sie für groß, die Risikobewertung dessen fällt unterschiedlich aus.
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
4/ 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
Screenshot of OpenStreetMap.org
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happy 22nd Birthday #OpenStreetMap !!! 🎂🍾🥳 Our business would not be possible without OSM, a big thank you to everyone in the community 🙏
Screenshot of the OpenCage blog page listing all of our OSM interviews
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The 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…
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OpenCage 👉🌍 (@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
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Just 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! 🥳🙌
Screenshot from the OpenCage blog of the list of #fridaygeotrivia questions
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Last 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!
Signing the Unification Treaty (August 31, 1990), published in: German History in Documents and Images, https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/a-new-germany-1990-2023/ghdi:image-3063
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We 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…
Screenshot of the OpenCage GDPR page
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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!
Map of Gibraltar
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1099300449046… Happy Bastille Day! To celebrate here's our #geoweirdness thread about the delightful geographic complexities of France 🇫🇷
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OpenCage 👉🌍 (@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
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Let'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/
Map of the Czech Republic
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
30/ 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…
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OpenCage Geotrivia - played on the final Friday of each month
On the final Friday of the month we play #fridaygeotrivia - a real-time social media geo trivia contest
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
28/ 🏁🏁🏁 TIME IS UP!!!! 🏁🏁🏁 This month's game is over. Now we count up the score ... #fridaygeotrivia
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
18/ Sorry, many answers to work through. The fact checking / field surveying team is working their way through them, one by one #fridaygeotrivia
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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.
Map of Switzerland which borders Liechtenstein and Austria via the Rhine
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1168562414922… 15 min to go!
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OpenCage 👉🌍 (@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!
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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!
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
RE: en.osm.town/@opencage/1168159489599… Don't forget - tomorrow (3 July) we play #fridaygeotrivia
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OpenCage 👉🌍 (@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!
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OpenCage @opencagedata.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Some 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.com
Canada to ​join Eurovision song contest from 2027
Country is first to join since Australia in 2015 as event director says it ‘continues to welcome the world’
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