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  Normally in #geoweirdness we look at disputed territories, but this week we thought we'd take things in the opposite direction: Join us as we consider "Terra nullis" or territories claimed by no one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius 1/

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  Wow, very exciting news, the Irish 🇮🇪 Government announces plans to make Eircodes open data! Obviously the exact details will matter, but this is great https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-taoiseach/press-releases/launch-of-intelligenceapplied-programme-to-support-irish-workers-and-business-to-adopt-ai/ Many thanks to Dermot McNally for making us aware, we'll watch this closely

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  After a brief hiatus our #OpenStreetMap interview series is back! This time we spoke with Sofia Pahaoja of Touch Mapper, , a website where you can create tactile maps for visually impaired people for free using OSM data https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreetmap-interview-touch-mapper

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  🚨 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: • Only one answer per toot • You must include the hashtag #fridaygeotrivia and the emoji flag of the countries Full details on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-september-2026 We will post a...

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  From parks and playgrounds to the world's quirkiest map features, @watmildon@en.osm.town proves that mapping is all about curiosity. Read our latest OSM blog interview to learn how creative projects help keep the OpenStreetMap community thriving: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreetmap-interview-watmildon #openstreetmap #opendata #mapping Photo: cathedrals of Germany generated with Matthew's XofY OSM Geometry Viewer

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  🚨 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! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/15/spain-gibraltar-celebrate-deal-signed-border-controls-uk-territory

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  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/

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  We’ve just published a new OpenStreetMap interview in our series featuring @VolkerKrause from @transitous In this conversation, Volker shares insights on the challenges of relying on proprietary transit APIs, why open mobility data matters, and how projects like Transitous are expanding what’s possible with OSM & community driven infrastructure. A big thank you to Volker for taking the time to share his perspective and experience with us. Read the full interview here: https://blog.op...

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  We originally had a different topic planned for this week's #geoweirdness thread, but the global discussion has turned to Greenland 🇬🇱, so let's go with it. Join us as we consider the geographic oddities of the world's northernmost territory. 1/

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  RE: https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/116419262767622505 Was a very enjoyable evening

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  🚨Time for #fridaygeotrivia 🚨 This month's question: Name country pairs that share at least one significant land border segment deliberately drawn along a line of latitude or longitude - a “ruler border.” An example is the 🇺🇸 US and 🇨🇦 Canada along the the 49th parallel. As always: • Only one answer per toot • You must include the hashtag #fridaygeotrivia and the emoji flag of the countries Full rules/details of prizes on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-april-2026

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  10 min to go until the Geoawesome online event "The AI Transformation: From APIs to Conversations" featuring our very own @freyfogle and others. https://www.airmeet.com/e/8ce18370-ff88-11f0-ace7-c7ef52349391

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  RE: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/116436679730466679 Don’t forget - #fridaygeotrivia tomorrow!

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  As always the best way to practice for #fridaygeotrivia is to review past questions, which you can find over on the blog https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-april-2026

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  The world's attention remains fixed on the US 🇺🇸 / Israel 🇮🇱 / Iran 🇮🇷 conflict generally and the Strait of Hormuz, the entry to the Persian Gulf, specifically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_hormuz While the conflict hopefully de-escalates we thought for this week's #geoweirdness thread we would feature the list of strategic maritime "choke points". 1/

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  Let's give a big, warm welcome to Danielle Mancini, who recently joined the OpenCage team. We're excited to have her on board! @SuperDani Read more about Danielle here: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/welcome-to-opencage

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  This time in #geoweirdness we return to Africa to consider the confusing case of "Congo", specifically the 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo (aka "DRC" or "Congo-Kinshasa") and 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo (aka "Congo-Brazzaville" 1/

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  Many of you are working with AI tools like Claude Code to accelerate development. We've published some Agent Skills files (SKILL.md) to get your agent up to speed more quickly on our geocoding API and working with our various language-specific SDKs and command line tools so you don't need to re-invent the wheel https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/agent-skills-for-working-with-the-opencage-geocoding-api-and-geosearch

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  It's April Fools' Day so we thought it fitting to pay tribute to one of the greatest geographic jokes of all time. In 1977 British newspaper The Guardian published a seven page supplement about the fictional nation of San Serriffe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe #geoweirdness

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  In today's episode of why geocoding is hard ... English translation of the note "Kleine Weiherstraße no longer exists, but the address is still used. This is not Pestalozzistraße 11. Source: sign at the location and the city of Mainz"

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  This week was Easter, so it's fitting we reshare our #geoweirdness thread about Chile 🇨🇱 , owners of Easter Island 🗿 Enjoy: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/112971578046705471

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  RE: https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/116373523453378180 Our very own @freyfogle will be speaking! Hope to see you there!

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  🚨 here we go! #fridaygeotrivia 🚨 Name countries whose common English name appears directly in the name of a sea, ocean, gulf, bay, strait, channel, or bight. For example: ✓ 🇲🇽  Mexico - Gulf of Mexico ✗ 🇫🇷  France - there is no France Sea or similar As always: * Only one answer per toot * You must include the hashtag #fridaygeotrivia and the emoji flag of the countries rules/details/prizes: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-february-2026

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  We return to the southern hemisphere this week in #geoweirdness We head to a country of vast deserts and long coasts - join us as we consider the geographic oddities of Namibia 🇳🇦 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia 1/

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  The US 🇺🇸 / Israel 🇮🇱/ Iran 🇮🇷 war has put the world's focus on the Strait of Hormuz. Hopefully the conflict ends soon 🙏 This week we reshare our #geoweirdness thread about the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 where we discuss the disputed islands near the Strait, amongst other bits of Emirati geographic oddness. https://en.osm.town/@opencage/111113713944602654

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  🗓️ March is drawing to a close, this Friday, the 27th, will be the final Friday of the month, which of course means ... ... we will play #fridaygeotrivia ! Sam procedure as every month - we will post the question here at 17:00 Berlin time 🇩🇪, 4pm London 🇬🇧, noon New York 🇺🇸 (note - currently only 5 hours 🕔 time difference between US and Europe due to DST) We hope you can join us for the game. As always rules and prizes are explained over on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotriv...

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  Many of our customers are using/buying geocoding for the first time. Often they are experienced devs, but with no geospatial background. We see from their questions they don't have the experience to know what to ask. So ... last week we launched a "Geocoding Buyer's Guide" 1/ #geocoding

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  In today's episode of why geocoding is hard ... Map of One Letter Place Names In Europe https://brilliantmaps.com/one-letter-place-names-in-europe/ via @arferrand