Last weekend, I made it to Manila for State of the Map 2025. OpenHistoricalMap made a cameo appearance in a talk I gave about the history and future of writing system support in MapLibre. Meanwhile, in the hallway track, OHM rocked the sticker scene with collectible troublemakers’ stickers highlighting our unapologetic differences from OpenStreetMap. Over the three days of the conference, I handed out over 60 of these stickers as a DWG member looked on in horror. (All in good fun.)
The next time you attend a conference or meetup, big or small, please help us spread the word about OHM by printing and distributing stickers! This category on the wiki contains several sticker designs. The “I map … like there’s no tomorrow” series is great fun for OSM events. Other designs are good for gatherings of cartographers or Wikipedians. Business cards are good for, well, business, but stickers keep things fun so no one feels like they aren’t enough of an expert to join in.
The designs are available in PDF format, which is perfect for most print shops, and SVG format, in case you want to tweak or translate the marketing message (requires Computer Modern fonts). I send these designs to a print shop near me that puts them on sheets of 3-inch-diameter circles, which I then cut up myself, but other sizes and shapes should work too. If you come up with your own designs, please upload them to the wiki so we can promote OHM as a team effort. And share some photos of OHM stickers around the world!