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Firefishy
This user is an administrator
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Mapper since:
August 28, 2006
Last map edit:
April 23, 2026
Home location
Catford, London
Company
OpenStreetMap Foundation
@Firefishy@en.osm.town
Firefishy
Firefishy
About me
I have been part of the OpenStreetMap Operations Team since 2017 and since May 2022 I have been employed by the OpenStreetMap Foundation as a
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
for the project.
I help maintain and operate the infrastructure that keeps OpenStreetMap.org running reliably for the global community.
I am also an active mapper with a strong interest in
Southern Africa
, where I have spent considerable time mapping railway infrastructure and power grid networks across the region.
Map layers and imagery
I maintain and help publish several aerial and historic map layers:
Southern Africa
South African NGI Aerial Imagery (25cm)
South West Africa / Namibia 1:50k Topographic Maps (1970s–1980s)
Swaziland / Eswatini Topographic Maps (1970s–1980s)
Coming soon
Rhodesia / Zimbabwe Topographic Maps (1960s–1980s)
Coming soon
Other layers
AGRI – Australian Geographic Reference Image
OS OpenMap Local
Messaging and support
Please note that I am
not able to provide individual user support via OpenStreetMap messages
If you need help with OpenStreetMap, please consider:
The
OpenStreetMap Wiki
The
OpenStreetMap Community Forum
Email:
support [AT] openstreetmap DOT org
Messages requesting account actions or administrative assistance sent via the OSM messaging system are unfortunately unlikely to receive a response.
Thanks for understanding, and happy mapping!
Latest Diaries
Diary Entry
Purchase Historical Eswatini Topographic Maps
I’m raising funds to purchase the historic 1:50,000 topographic map series of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), so I can preserve and share them onlin...
5 comments
October 30, 2025
Diary Entry
Help purchase 1:50k Topographic series of Swaziland?
A few years back, I successfully led a crowdfunding effort to raise £975 to purchase scans of the 1970s / 1980s 1:50k topographic map series of Sou...
6 comments
December 01, 2023
Diary Entry
Update OpenStreetMap's OS Street View instance
I recently updated http://os.openstreetmap.org/
Announced here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2012-September/013789.html
1 comment
September 10, 2012
Diary Entry
First Post :-)
New server database server Ramoth is now online.
4 comments
April 04, 2012