I’m Amanda McCann. I’m a mapper and programmer originally for Ireland, but now based in Germany. I work at Geofabrik. (pronouns: english: “she”, deutsch: „sie“)

I was on the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors Dec. 2019→Dec. 2022. I write up what I do in OSM on my OSM Diary.

I’m on the Communication WG. I started & admin the En.OSM.Town Mastodon/Fediverse server for the OSM community (See what’s being posted there, who’s active, and sign up here).

I took part in the Irish Historic Mapping Project, and created a site to show a map of the irish townlands we’ve added.

Recently, I’ve been working on WaterwayMap.org, which has a map of rivers in the world, and a global river database.

Me on other websites:

• 🐘 Mastodon/Fediverse account: @amapanda@en.osm.town (also @amapanda@mapstodon.space)
• View my OSM contributions via How Did You Contribute (hdyc)
• Amᵃᵖanda on the OpenStreetMap Wiki
• @Amanda#2524 on Discord, join the OSM World Discord
• amandasaurus on Github (all my openstreetmap projects on github)
• ✉ email: amanda@technomancy.org

In case your wondering, my username is in Ogham, an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language, and then a transgender flag. It’s interesting to see what OSM software doesn’t follow open standards, and cannot handle unicode correctly. 😈

This is what the letters mean: ᚛ᚐ(Aᚋ(m)ᚐ(a)ᚅ(n)ᚇ(d)ᚐ(a)᚜