OpenStreetMap Calendar

by faebi • 1 year ago

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bradly• 1 year ago

During my time on Apple Maps we were encouraged to attend OSM's Mappy Hours. It was a great experience to see just how much manual effort still goes into creating maps.

thomersch_• 1 year ago

Ha, not sure why it got submitted here now, but since I wrote the software, I'll provide some background:

A couple of years ago we had a hand-fiddled table in our OpenStreetMap wiki with events, but discovery was poor and nobody really wanted to write wiki table syntax _shudder_ to add events. So people either didn't do it or only advertised their events in their group chats or Facebook groups.

Thus I started writing some code, and now people can add an event by just logging in with their OpenStreetMap account and filling out a small form. We still display our events in a Wiki by using the API and a small Mediawiki plugin to maintain human compatibility for people who are used to getting events from the wiki. There are also RSS feeds, iCalendar subscriptions and event file downloads, so that everybody can subscribe to events in their preferred form.

It's a small project that I've been running for a couple years and it's really rewarding to see people using it every day.

personality0• 1 year ago

This is great, I was thinking of creating something similar for a map-based events project. Is there an API to create events? From what I saw you can only read/list events? If possible, I'd like to incorporate this into my app, when a venue/organiser creates an event, for it to also go to OpenStreetMap Calendar.

rglullis• 1 year ago

Could it be that you just need a mobilizon (https://joinmobilizon.org/) instance?

mdtrooper• 1 year ago

Fifteen years ago, in Spain, there was a calendar with events about free software, it named Libro Blanco. It was great.

cft• 1 year ago

Does OsmAND show these events in my area when I open the map? I would greatly increase participation.

pabs3• 1 year ago

Some other event sites for open source events are on:

https://wiki.debian.org/SocialEventAndConferenceCalendars

deknos• 1 year ago

let's make a list of all the lists, here the ones i know:

* https://github.com/Everything-Open-Source/open-source-events * https://foss.events

ktm5j• 1 year ago

Turns out there's a meetup near me in just a couple days, I might go! Also I love that they call their meetups "mappy hours"

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