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A crowd-sourced open data site for memorial benches!

H.1301 (Cornil) | Day 1 | 13:45 - 13:55 | Speakers: Terence Eden

A crowd-sourced open data site for memorial benches!
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⚠️ Spoiler Alert ⚠️ One day, you are going to die.

You may not get a blue plaque on the side of a building, or a statue, or even a Wikipedia entry. But perhaps you’ll get a memorial bench?

We built https://openbenches.org where anyone can add to a collection of open data.

We’ll show you why & how we built this collection of >39,000 memorial benches from around the world, how it integrates with OSM, and what we learned along the way.

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