Mastodon
Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers.
Some real-life objects (such as shops) might display their mastodon-profile. This can be tagged with contact:mastodon=*
Mastodon instances
Join this instance for OSM-centric talk: en.osm.town maintained by User:Amᵃᵖanda / .svg){kind=small}
@amapanda@en.osm.town
. English is the main language, but other languages are allowed too. (if you want to deploy other Mastodon related instances email Amanda for osm.town subdomains)
- fr.osm.social used to be a French language instance maintained by User:Cquest but is currently defunct.
Or one of these for more general map-related matters:
- mapstodon.space which aims at gathering cartography and geospatial professionals and enthusiasts
OpenStreetMap integration
Verified links
Mastodon supports verified links on your Mastodon profile, (using the rel=me link standard). You can add this type of links to your OpenStreetMap.org profile page, and they will shortly show as “verified” on your Mastodon profile.
OSM Wiki userbox
Use the {{Template:Mastodon_user}} to include your Mastodon/Fedi on your OSM Wiki profile page.
Users / Accounts
- Category:Mastodon user - OSM Wiki users who have the {{Template:Mastodon user}} userbox.
General
- content by the WeeklyOSM team
- Posts new entries in RSS feeds from blog.openstreetmap.de and weeklyosm.eu/de
Regional
- Mirrored from 
@osm_fr
- Swiss OpenStreetMap
- Missing Maps Slovakia
- OSM Berlin and Brandenburg
- OSM en català
- OSM Pyrénées-Orientales
- OpenStreetMap Guyane
- OpenStreetMap Belgium
- OpenStreetMap Italia - mostly mirrored from @WikimediaItalia
- OpenStreetMap LATAM
- Open Infrastructure Map
- OpenStreetMap Latvija
- OpenStreetMap Japan
- OpenStreetMap Austria
- MaptimeBogota
Software
- OSM.to (NASA SpaceApps 2021 project for providing automated geo-referencing for Ground Control Point)
- Mirrored from @vespucci_editor
- Mirror of @StreetComplete
- Mirrored to @josmeditor
- Osmose QA
- MapRoulette
- MapComplete
- Organic Maps
Groups/Companies
Account for Geofabrik
Other Lists of Fediverse Accounts
Here are some other web pages which list masotdon/fediverse accounts one can follow:
- “Fediverse Trunk on OpenStreetMap”. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- Florian Ledermann. “Cartography, Geovisualization & GIS on Mastodon”. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
Quirks
Note that your server may not show federation replies and federation likes, in some defined cases. For details, see the flowchart for replies and the flowchart for likes here.
See also
- List of OSM centric Twitter accounts
- contact:mastodon
- Fediphoto an application to post a photo quickly to the Fediverse and linking it to an OSM note.
Resources
Flyer distributed at State of the Map 2019 at Heidelberg, and based on the flyer at State of the Map 2018 in Milan
