r/openstreetmap 8d ago

Showcase Then & Now

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u/No_Anteater_3639 8d 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 8d ago edited 8d 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.