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 / _new_hue.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. This was added in Dec. 2023.
Instructions
Example process using the OSM.town Mapstodon, presuming your mastodon handle is @MASTO@en.osm.town and you're OSM username is OSMER
- Open your OSM.org edit profile page
- In your OSM profile text, Put some HTML link like this:
<a rel="me" href="https://en.osm.town/@MASTO">@MASTO@en.osm.town</a>. - Open the Mastodon edit profile page
- You have 4 fields to use, like OSM keys & values. Set one of the values (i.e. RHS) to the URL of your OSM profile
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/OSMER. No formatting or link text. - ✨ wait a little bit ✨ (it doesn't check immediatley, wait “a few hours” / “a day”)
- On your Mastodon profile you'll get a green check! ✅
OSM Wiki userbox
Use the {{User Mastodon}} or {{Template:Mastodon user}} (plain text) 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
@openstreetmap@en.osm.town- @osm_tech@en.osm.town
- @sotm@en.osm.town
- @weeklyOSM@en.osm.town - content by the WeeklyOSM team
- @OSMBlogde@botsin.space - Posts new entries in RSS feeds from blog.openstreetmap.de and weeklyosm.eu/de
- @ohm@mapstodon.space – OpenHistoricalMap announcements
Regional
- @osm_fr@fr.osm.social - Mirrored from
@osm_fr
- @osmcz@mastodon.social
- @SwissOSM@en.osm.town - Swiss OpenStreetMap
- @missingmaps_sk@en.osm.town - Missing Maps Slovakia
- @osmberlin@en.osm.town - OSM Berlin and Brandenburg
- @osmcatala@mastodont.cat - OSM en català
- @OpenStreetMap66@en.osm.town - OSM Pyrénées-Orientales
- @osm_gf@en.osm.town - OpenStreetMap Guyane
- @osm_be@en.osm.town - OpenStreetMap Belgium
- @WikimediaItalia@framapiaf.org - OpenStreetMap Italia - mostly mirrored from @WikimediaItalia
- @osmlatam@en.osm.town - OpenStreetMap LATAM
- @OpenInfraMap@en.osm.town - Open Infrastructure Map
- @OSMLatvija@en.osm.town - OpenStreetMap Latvija
- @osmjp@mstdn.jp - OpenStreetMap Japan
- @osm_at@mastodon.social - OpenStreetMap Austria
- @MaptimeBogota@en.osm.town - MaptimeBogota
- @vietnam@en.osm.town - OpenStreetMap Vietnam
Software
- @OSM_to@mastodon.social: OSM.to (NASA SpaceApps 2021 project for providing automated geo-referencing for Ground Control Point)
- @vespucci_editor@en.osm.town - Mirrored from @vespucci_editor
- @streetcomplete@mastodon.social - StreetComplete
- @josmeditor@en.osm.town - Mirrored to @josmeditor
- @OsmoseQA@en.osm.town - Osmose QA
- @MapRoulette@en.osm.town - MapRoulette
- @MapComplete@en.osm.town - MapComplete
- @organicmaps@fosstodon.org - Organic Maps
- @everydoor@en.osm.town - Every Door
Groups/Companies
- @geofabrik@en.osm.town 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.
- Bluesky
Resources
Flyer distributed at State of the Map 2019 at Heidelberg, and based on the flyer at State of the Map 2018 in Milan
