State of the Map 2009/Poetry Competition
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SOTM 2009 Amsterdam haiku Poem Page
Simple rules:
- Use three lines of up to 17 syllables;
- Allude to a season of the year (kigo);
- Something to do with OpenStreetMap maps or mapping.
More information on haiku here.
Contributions welcome in any of these categories:
1) Haiku you would show your mother and that she just might understand.
2) Dubious Haiku that you certainly would not show your mother.
3) Obscure jargon-ridden Haiku that no-one except hard-core OSM mappers would understand.
Contributions
From the mighty bard Iván Sánchez Ortega:
- Maps maps
- maps maps maps maps
- maps!
Mandatory Monty Python reference:
- Maps
- Bacon and maps
- Maps, maps, eggs, bacon and maps
Iván also reinvents the classics:
- The old waterway=pond;
- A frog jumps in —
- The sound of the natural=water.
- Survey the beach
- Destroy the coast
- Ban Potlatch
Sin estaciones
- Mira mi pueblo
- siente sus montañas
- Yo, ellos somos libres
No season
- look my town
- felt the mountains
- They and I are free
Low Battery
- Logging ski slopes
- Icy hands
- Time to get piste
Waar zit mijn GPS?
- Hij is de weg kwijt
- Op een brug over een gracht
- Hij heeft geen kaart
1.
- More maps coming soon
- The website sighs to us all
- Lets go map those streets!
2.
- Hmm, The site is down?
- Is it working for you?
- Must be a new api!
3.
- Where?, Où?, Wo? Waar? Hvor?
- It's Here. Ici. Hier, Hier. Her.
- Libre! Öffnen! Åpen!
The Seasoned Mapper
- White sunlight burns me
- Man's satellites between us
- We map and we sweat
- Sun lost beyond cloud
- Street signs once hidden by leaves
- Addictive I find
- Old path in new frost
- Woollen hat hides receiver
- Recording my steps
- Bike wheels on wet roads
- Logging points of interest
- Watch out for that bus
- White-tinged northern forest
- GPX knows where I am
- Alone but Share-Alike
- Morning time, birds tweet
- In Amsterdam I will too
- Using @steev8
- GPS
- Some software magic
- Mapnik maps