OpenCage Geothreads
Over the last few years we've been doing educational "threads" about our service, geocoding in general, OpenStreetMap and open data, or #geoweirdness, where we look at strange geofacts about different countries or regions.
Of course threads aren't the only fun we have on social media. The final Friday of each month we do a geo trivia contest. We hope to see you there.
Full list of our geothreads
#geoweirdness
General topics
- Confusing places
- Enclaves and Exclaves
- Border disputes
- Time zones
- Deleted ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes
- Geopolitics of football
- The London Tube Map
- Linguistic Maps and Atlases
- The Vaguely Rude Places Map
Specific countries/territories
- Antarctica
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- 🇬🇧 British Overseas Territories
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- Catalonia
- 🇨🇱 Chile
- 🇨🇽 Christmas Island
- 🇭🇷 Croatia
- 🇩🇰 Denmark
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Greater Antilles
- the Indian Ocean
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Lesser Antilles
- 🇬🇧 London
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- 🇲🇦 Morocco
- 🇳🇱 The Netherlands
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- 🏴 Scotland
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
- 🇺🇸 United States - 50 states
- 🇺🇸 United States non-state territories
- Wales
About OpenStreetMap and open data
- The benefits of open data
- How to stay informed about OpenStreetMap
- Our OpenStreetMap community interviews
- OpenStreetMap software maker interviews
About OpenCage, geocoding, #geoeducation
- The nuances of reverse geocoding
- Geocoding images / Exif data
- Geocoding the oceans
- IP geolocation and how it differs from geocoding
- Our address-formatting project
- Geomob - our geo events and podcast
- Why we allow only one location per API request
- How we enhance our geocoding API results with other types of relevant data
- The privacy implications of geocoding
- Browser geolocation and how it differs from geocoding