OpenStreetMap
Alan
- Mapper since:
- 16 July, 2006
- Last map edit:
- 24 July, 2025
I’m the lead cartographer at Stamen Design.
Mastodon: @alan@subdued.social
Wiki username with more info: User:Alan
https://osmus.slack.com username: @alan
Conference presentations: https://speakerdeck.com/almccon
Mapillary: https://mapillary.com/profile/almccon
Github: https://github.com/almccon
Help forum: https://help.openstreetmap.org/users/12321/alan
Import account: osm.org/user/Alan_imports
Latest Diaries
Should you rank all the candidates in the OSMF election?
TL;DR: The answer is yes. You don’t have to rank all the candidates, but there’s no reason not to. The OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF) is currentl...
Video: Getting Native Reservations on OpenStreetMap
Last month I gave a presentation at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference about getting Native Reservations to sho...
OpenStreetMap US Board Election Results
[repost from the OpenStreetMapUS blog] The OpenStreetMap US board elections for 2019 have completed! As an election observer, I was tasked with ma...
Aboriginal areas are finally on the map!
Late last year (around the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States) I wrote a blog post saying “It’s about time OpenStreetMap showed native lands...