Over the years, people ask me how I started and what have I done so far in OpenStreetMap. I tried to capture this in an earlier post.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a template for your OpenStreetMap elevator pitch? Inspired by an old discussion and The Open Source Report Card, I looked at Pascale’s HDYC numbers to tell a story about your OSM journey.

Stories unlike numbers, are kind of imprecise, fuzzy and sometimes exaggerated. ;-)
This is the challenge of this exercise. How can you tell your OpenStreetMap story this way?

So I made something out of OpenStreetMap data, and, it’s not a map.

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Try it out! Use this as a boilerplate and fill in the details of your OpenStreetMap story.

The code is messy/buggy but somehow works. Don’t take the numbers seriously, this was just a fun hack. :)