OSM Awards 2020

This year, we are again presenting the OpenStreetMap Awards! Seven nominees will receive an award in seven categories at the State of the Map 2020 conference. This is a community award: you decide who the nominees are, before you vote for them.

Selecting Nominees: The awards committees are working on filtering the list of nominees to four or five for each category, using your submissions and votes. The voting will open on the 1st of June.

Core Systems Award

For outstanding contributions to any of the core tools, systems, processes or resources. Not limited to systems under OSMF control. The Rails port, osm2pgsql, openstreetmap-carto, iD, JOSM, mapnik and any other tool that mappers use on a daily basis, knowingly or not, are eligible.

core

ToniE

ToniE is contributing to OSM since 2007 and is lately very active in enhancing the quality of public transport mapping. He created the tool PTNA https://ptna.openstreetmap.de that both captures the completeness of PT mapping and analyses the issues with the mapping. Currently he focuses on the practical exploitation of GTSF data.
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core

TheFive

TheFive has created a content management system called "OSMBC" - OSM blog collector - and has been managing it on its own for years. This tool allows the weeklyOSM team to publish the different editions in currently 10 languages week by week almost simultaneously.
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core

Wambacher

Wambacher is part of the German OSM community but contributes internationally by looking after and maintaining state borders. He also has offered a website for downloading border shape files and maintains German PLZ relations. He also publicates the OSM software list. And many more ....
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core

Alexander Zeynalov

Alexander Zeynalov is a member of the Russian OSM community, who is the inconspicuous person who is responsible for the servers of the Russian community, supports various services and constantly repairs them. His work is not visible at first glance, but without it - nowhere. In addition, it supports a service with regular extractcs of CIS countries and Russian regions in PBF format.
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core

Vincent Privat

For his continuous benevol work developing JOSM core and maintaining many plugins for the past 10 years.
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