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Hello and welcome!

For a long time, open data was often dismissed as insignificant or not taken seriously. Today, we live in a digital era where open source has reached an unprecedented level of importance and maturity. Yet even now, many professionals still look down on open-source projects with a condescending smile.

I believe open source truly matters.

When I first entered the field of geography professionally about 25 years ago, I quickly realized that up-to-date geoinformation was extremely expensive — and often simply unavailable to the average person or small organization. Digging deeper into the reasons behind this scarcity, I discovered that much of this data already existed: for example, addresses published by local municipalities. However, in my region, this information rarely reached the people who needed it. Instead, it was effectively withheld through slow, inefficient bureaucratic processes.

I refused to accept this situation. I began searching for ways to obtain citizen-funded geoinformation under a suitable open license — and to make it publicly available myself.

This journey eventually led me to OpenStreetMap… and to the idea behind OSM Plus.

Stay tuned — more to come!