After almost four and a half years in Turkmenistan, Ann and I will depart in June upon completion of my tour of duty as U.S. ambassador here. My successor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate this week and so I must depart to make room for him. Since we started mapping Turkmenistan, we have posted over half a million ground-level images on Mapillary, over 280,000 edits, created these wiki articles:

Ahal Province

Ashgabat

Anew

Balkan Province

Balkanabat

Dashoguz

Dashoguz Province

Districts in Turkmenistan

Gazetteer of Ashgabat Street Names

Lebap Province

Mary (Turkmenistan)

Mary Province

Turkmenabat

Turkmenbashy

Turkmenistan Geoname Changes

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and expanded the Turkmenistan wiki article to approximately 10,000 words. We have dug up authoritative lists of all municipalities in Turkmenistan, created from scratch a gazetteer of street names in Ashgabat, and added over 11 thousand roads and streets.

Alas, our contributions will mostly come to an end with our departure, but I hope that people I have trained over the past four years will continue to contribute to the Turkmenistan map in OSM.