OpenStreetMap
How to verify your OpenStreetMap-account on Mastodon?
أُرسل بواسطه Pieter Vander Vennet فى 9 November 2024 باللغه English Last updated on 13 June 2025.Hey all,
If you want to verify your OSM-account and get that nice badge, this is possible.
UPDATE: since june (or was it may?) 2025, the OSM website introduced “social links” in the user profile. You can link your mastodon account in there and save. (*)
Then, on your Mastodon-account, go to Preferences > Public Profile. Under ‘extra fields’, set ‘OpenStreetMap’ to the left and a link to your account to the right.
(*): Previously, one had to add a html-link with rel="me" attribute into the user profile.
Discussion
تعليق من Doofus Magoo فى 9 November 2024 at 11:43
Where to place the link to Mastodon in the second sentence?
تعليق من Pieter Vander Vennet فى 9 November 2024 at 11:56
@Doofus Magoo: I was a bit distracted while writing this; I’ve updated the second sentence and it should be clear now.
تعليق من Doofus Magoo فى 9 November 2024 at 11:59
Thank you! In the very last sentence, I’m putting in Mastodon a link to my OSM account, yes?
So put a link to Mastodon in OSM, and a link to OSM in Mastodon – I think I got it! Thank you!
تعليق من Pieter Vander Vennet فى 9 November 2024 at 19:42
Yup, it worked. I can see your green checkmark, you are verified on Mastodon.
If you make an edit with https://mapcomplete.org, then https://en.osm.town/@mapcomplete_edits will tag you ;)
تعليق من livmilan فى 17 November 2024 at 22:28
Sorry, I’m missing something: in osm the profile text is markdown formatted; if I write the html style tag you suggested, it doesn’t appear as a link kn my profile, but as a text. What am I doing wrong?
تعليق من livmilan فى 17 November 2024 at 22:34
Nevermind, I missed an apostrophe character! 😅
تعليق من Pieter Vander Vennet فى 17 November 2024 at 22:34
Your profile on OSM has a correct link. Your mastodon profile is linked correctly to. To force Mastodon to validate again, change something about your fields in Mastodon and you’ll get your green checkmark too.
تعليق من livmilan فى 17 November 2024 at 22:48
After correcting the typo and changing something, as you suggested, it worked! Thank you
(Btw I found the tipon weeklyosm, just wanted let you know)
تعليق من Pieter Vander Vennet فى 17 November 2024 at 22:56
Jup, I see the checkmark on your profile too now!
Yeah, I read the Weekly too and saw that they mentioned this.