Update for the past 10 days of the mapping challenge.

Today I mapped the last village on the list, so in 71 days i have mapped around 100 villages. Since my initial personal challenge was to map for 100 days, I will continue mapping and add villages to the list. I will finish mapping what is left from the Online Mapping Party for OSM 20th birthday. List of villages is we mapped and what is still to be mapped is here.

Villages mapped during the past 10 days:

1. Vorrozen

2. Levan

3. Pilur

4. Kodër

5. Toç

6. Skrevan

7. Arn i Epërm

8. Lofkend

9. Ogren-Kostrec

10. Lenmushë

11. Rrashtan

12. Raban

13. Skënderbej

14. Kuç

15. Jezull

16. Shpatanj

17. Arrëz

Together with LibreLabs Albania and OpenStreetMap Albania, we decided to celebrate the 20th birthday with an Online Mapping Party. We decided to “Map the Balkans”, so we extracted 55 villages from 11 countries, and we will come together on the 10th at 19:00 to celebrate and map.

Blog post from LibreLabs - https://librelabs.cc/blog/openstreetmap-online-mapping-party/

OSMcal - https://osmcal.org/event/3041/

Wiki - osm.wiki/OpenStreetMap_20th_Anniversary_Birthday_party

Anybody who wishes to join is more than welcome!

Happy 20th birthday, OpenStreetMap!

Update on the progress for the last 5 days of mapping.

I have mapped the villages:

Baz

Memaliaj Fshat

Plan

Kujtim

Poçestë

Velahovë

Tharri

Matranxhë

A special thank you again to perenniallylate for mapping Ujëmirë

“#100villagesin100days”

I am struggling to write a diary entry every day, but I am making up for it by mapping more in the surrounding areas of every village I map. During the past 5 days i have mapped the villages:

1 - Bubq

2 - Mengël

3 - Gjokaj

4 - Nangë

5 - Bicaj

6 - Ngraçan

7 - Bishqethem

A big thank you to ibanez for mapping Bllatë e Poshtme.

“#100villagesin100days”

Even though I have not been able to write a diary entry every day, I have managed to map a village or more every day.

Now I am at the airport of Athens, waiting for the airplane to travel back home, and found the time to write this diary entry. In the past days I have mapped the villages Pac, Gjergjan, Kaçinar, Romës, Selckë, Bukmirë and many smaller villages surrounding the above-mentioned villages.

I would also like to publicly thank again perenniallylate for mapping other two villages in Albania, Rusinjë and Kuqar.

“#100villagesin100days “

I am mapping every day, but i am unable to write a diary entry for every day i map. due to limited internet access and being on the move most of the time.

During the past 4 days, including today, i have mapped Villages Mesul, Cerjan, Bishqem and Papër and i have done a lot of mapping in Kosovo.

I have also gotten some private message these days to whom i have been unable to respond, so i ask you to bear with me. I will be back home in a week and will catch up with you all. Thanks a lot for contributing on mapping Albania! <3

“#100villagesin100days “

These days i am very busy and i have not been able to write a diary entry as I do every day, but i have mapped some villages and improved some already mapped villages. Too tired, to remember the names or go back and look them up. Hopefully ill get some more free time in the next days to make a more detailed diary entry.

“#100villagesin100days #day41&42”

Yesterday i received a message from perenniallylate notifying me that he had mapped village 99 on the list, Tremul, and asking me if it was okay for him to map some villages in the upcoming weeks.

I thanked him in private, but also want to thank him publicly for contributing to mapping Albania and putting Albanian villages on the map.

Anyone can map any village from the list, because I can always add more villages to it. It would be amazing if you could send me a message or leave a comment that you mapped it, but even if you do not, it is totally okay.

Today I continued mapping and mapped Kryemadh and the surrounding areas, including villages Kalimash and Shtanë.

“#100villagesin100days #day40 #+1contributor”

Today I mapped in Peshkopi. Tomin ain’t really a village of Peshkopi but a neighborhood, so after mapping it I proceeded to the villages closest to Peshkopi.

I mapped Pilafë which is a small village very close to the city. I have been in Pilafë in 2021,for a door-to-door campaign in support of a local miner who was representing the miners in the parliamentary elections. As soon as we entered the village, a 10-year-old boy saw us and wanted to show us the village, and he walked with us and showed every house in the village for two hours straight.

After Pilafë, i moved to Staravec and partially mapped it too.

“#100villagesin100days #day39”

Almost did not make it to contribute today but i found some time just before the days ends.

Today i mapped Saraqinisht and also the villages Krinë and Tranoshisht.

“#100villagesin100days #day38”

Yesterday was a hectic day and I missed a day of mapping. I will try to make it up.

Today I mapped Duhanas which is a big village in Berat with a population of around 1500.

“#100villagesin100days #day37”

I hope the DDoS attack on OSM server was not serious, and they did not manage to do any harm. Many thanks to all the people that worked on solving the issue!

Today i mapped village Fushëz a village located in Elbasan with a population of around 188.

“#100villagesin100days #day36”

Today i mapped Gradec which is a different Gradec from the one i mapped yesterday.

I have been noticing that we have so many villages with same names in Albania. I might do a list of all the villages who share the same name and map them :P.

“#100villagesin100days #day35”

It seems that I forgot to add a Diary Entry yesterday.

Yesterday I mapped the village Renz and the surrounding areas.

Today I started with Demiraj which was fully mapped (Thanks to DenisJu which has done an amazing job mapping Shkodra and the surroundings) so I moved next on the list.

I mapped the village Slatinjë which was really tiny, so I decided to map also Radesh and Gradec.

“#100villagesin100days #day33 #day34”

Today I started with Llëngë, a village with a population of around 75. After that I moved around in the villages in Pogradec and mapped a little here and there.

I decided to go back to my hometown and I continued mapping the city of Çorovodë, which still needs some work. I will map with EveryDoor when im there next time. Furthermore, I moved further to the village Sharovë, Prishtë, Rehovicë (which is my grandfather’s village) and finally I partially mapped Çepan.

I am sure I have forgotten some villages because today I roamed a lot on the map and I can say this Sunday started very good.

Time to translate a Wikipedia article to Albanian now. Another challenge among some Wikimedia friends.

“#100villagesin100days #day32”

Today i mapped the tiny village of Vlashaj in Bulqize. I also mapped a little the village Shupenzë and the surroundings.

“#100villagesin100days #day31”

Today I finished mapping Shënepremte and I continued on the next village on the list. Xhan was a tiny village with just some houses scattered around the forest, so I mapped what I could and continued down the list to Floq.

Floq is a village in Korce with a population of around 1072. I was really inspired today so i went on and mapped also Pepellash and Helmës.

“#100villagesin100days #day30”

Today I almost mapped Shënepremte. I will keep mapping tomorrow till I finish it.

As a Linux sysadmin, dealing with an OpenSSH vulnerability can lead to a hectic day. Ensure you’ve checked your servers and updated OpenSSH if you haven’t already.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-regresshion-security-fix

“#100villagesin100days #day29”

Today I mapped Gllavë which is a tiny village in Memaliaj.

I wandered around the map to check how this remote tiny village is connected to main streets and I found out there are many tiny villages scattered through the mountain and none of them seem to be connected (or I can not figure out how they are connected) to the main roads.

I continued mapping, and I lost count how many small villages I mapped today. I am attaching the area I mapped and if anybody knows a quick way to figure out if these villages are in any way connected to main streets can let me know in the comments.

“#100villagesin100days #day28”

Today I continued down the list and mapped Alarup. After that i continued in the surroundings and partially mapped the villages Bletas and Blacë .

“#100villagesin100days #day27”