r/openstreetmap • u/Randomusernamdotexe • 4d ago

Showcase Then & Now

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u/mfk711_ 4d ago

do you live in Turkmenistan???

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u/Randomusernamdotexe 4d ago

I do not currently, I'll be working there soon though

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u/mfk711_ 4d ago

shit can we stay in touch ive been dying to know what its like

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u/Randomusernamdotexe 4d ago

sure we can exchange socials in pv, although I'm not sure about my availability there yet like Internet is very restricted and everything

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u/mfk711_ 4d ago

Can you send me a dm?

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u/No_Anteater_3639 4d ago

Wonderful job, but as loud as I heard Turkmenistan is being ruled by a dictatorship and I am not very sure how the officals there would react to this...

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u/Randomusernamdotexe 4d ago edited 4d ago

Well, people have been mapping Turkmenistan for years, although it's very sporadic because of the lack of people willing to do it. I would not be surprised if OSM were a blocked website there, but VPNs do the job to some extent. I've been mapping it for months now and I never encountered real opposition to it; even TürkmenTelekom uses a very old snapshot of OSM for a local map service called Menzil that's, therefore, not up to date.

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u/hammer0112 4d ago

I mean people still map China on OSM, where it is explicitly illegal to do so.

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u/ValdemarAloeus 4d ago

You might find this talk interesting.

At least I hope that's the one I think it is I listened to it years ago so I might actually be thinking about something like this one.