I blew off some meetings and went hiking in an incredibly beautiful spot. (Saskatchewan is so flat! Except where it's not.)
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What will the next euro banknotes look like? 🇪🇺💶
The European Central Bank has shortlisted 10 designs, selected from over 1,200 proposals by graphic designers across Europe.
🗳️ Now it's your turn to pick your favourite 👉 surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/newe…
*Survey available in the 24 EU languages.
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Wait? What? Only birds? As a biologist I object!
What will the next euro banknotes look like? 🇪🇺💶The European Central Bank has shortlisted 10 designs, selected from over 1,200 proposals by graphic designers across Europe.
🗳️ Now it's your turn to pick your favourite 👉 surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/newe…
*Survey available in the 24 EU languages.
There are indeed bees and flies far more beautiful than the set of birds chosen.
@brembs I also wanted to ask for more biodiversity but I think that these odd curbes in one version stand for biodiversity decline. 😉
@albertcardona @brembs all true, but the birds ones are at least way better than the famous people and buildings ones 🤷🏼♂️
some designs here do also feature great apes. Just a single species though.
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@brembs yes, I vote gor a different oak species on each 😁
Fixed the link for you surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/newe…
Edit: they've fixed it now. I'm not totally mad...
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@collectifission Oh, wundwerschön! 😍
Aber lieber den 20€-Schein lila färben, als Tinky-Winky blau!
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well if this is how Brits will return, so be it
love it!!! 100% loving it. is there a back side version of it. I'm attempted to print this out to fool people.
@collectifission with britons characters, oh sweet irony! ^^
As long as I am forced to poverty in a dying „social“ state, I don't care.
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(You've forgotten to pass the full link. Its only a text currently. The "https://" must be in front of it :)
Hi @The_Universality! Thank you for spotting this! We have corrected the link in the post.
Gotta say, the survey structure is rather…meh.
Just for fun, put this in as an option 😎
@benroyce IDK, it's like Lord Bucket Head or Boaty McBoatFace.
I'd rather have King George on my US dollars than traitor Trump, so I hope nobody in the EU would vote for this option either.
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fair enough
it's just kind of weird to make it about the usa though. this is a european thing
@benroyce Plus my references were to UK politics.
Please EU, don't get as cynical and stupid as the average US or BREXIT people.
C'est décevant que pour les personnes, vous ayez choisi une femme pour la plus petite coupure.
Décidément, le #patriarcat est encore bien présent chez vous et dans la société.
I am confused, why so many angry looking people .... I hope that's not supposed to be us Europeans...
why are there ugly buildings on the rear of ALL the banknotes.. pleaase get rid of those
indeed, they let to choose, but add buildings to almost every choice 🙄 🤷🏻
H design have very pretty birds, but dislike the buildings.
So my favorite would be design D where buildings are almost hidden, quite invisible, not as pronounced.
If this would not be the final vote, then they could do:
H front side, and D back side, plus matching colors.
And I like E with humans, it resembles our old banknotes before euro 😊
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@tecteun here I fixed the problem with buildings,
e.g. "H front side, and D back side, plus matching colors"
e.g. "H front side, and D back side, plus matching colors"
Wow, sooo ugly!
Really, right in front of my laziness? 
why do the options feature words "The President"? I don't get it
This is the only real suggestion so far. Everything else presented just looks like someone prompted midjourney with "create some monopoly money that looks like an advertisement for a gambling service" or similar shit...
Why? There is no need. We don't have to be 'great' as someone else, are we?
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American here. It's just a banknote redesign. It has absolutely remotely nothing to do with the USA nor the orange pedophile and his cult of morons. Not everything has to be about the USA, and turning a strictly European topic into a weird obsession with the USA is quite cringe
American here. It's just a banknote redesign. It has absolutely remotely nothing to do with the USA nor the orange pedophile and his cult of morons. Not everything has to be about the USA, and turning a strictly European topic into a weird obsession with the USA is quite cringe
The next Euro notes will be digital!
Can't decide. Please send me some for comparison.
I would prefer the 5€ banknote is not sadly grey. It is grey in each proposal.
If only we could mix birds and people, instead of having to chose between birds/buildings and historian figures/peoples…
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This design is the first that the survey shows me. I love the birds, but the buildings are drab, corporate, and boring.
Survey is flawed. It asks me whether I love it, but I cannot compare to the other designs before I make a choice.
@smallcircles Well, you don’t have to compare them…
Just say if you like them one at the time.
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So I say "I don't like it" because of the buildings. And then later on it appears to be the best design of the set.
Can you change choices afterwards?
@smallcircles @breizh yes you can go back to previous designs.
Did it. Some designs looked as made by AI. 😁 A bit Midjourney-like.
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Designs 2 and 3 were gorgeous imho
IMHO they’re all too similar. Either all birds or all faces. Apart from color there is no easy distinction.
Is this video designed for tiktok, or why are the images moving so fast?
Should it be particularly modern, or should it not be accessible to everyone? After all, the designs aren't immediately easy to grasp visually. You don't pick up older people here!
Should it be particularly modern, or should it not be accessible to everyone? After all, the designs aren't immediately easy to grasp visually. You don't pick up older people here!
nice to see we still actively promote against digital sovereignty
best one is design H !
Love the 20€ birds!
Love the 20€ birds!
Done! Thanks. 😊💶🗳️
What no Karl Marx portrait for proposed new Euro banknotes?
Not fair!
Not fair!
Design E is my favourite
responded as someone in the UK who looks forward to when we finally rejoin and adopt the euro as well. (I spent most of my life on the continent)
Waar is Jaap Drupsteen als je 'm nodig hebt? 🫣
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How about allowing pinch to zoom in the survey site? It's not really accessible like that.
I don't think they should have persons, it gets too controversial, too easy to abuse.
Birds! It has to be one of the designs with birds.
Better pictures of dinosaurs because they are the ancestors of birds ;)
I like the current bridges and doors more.
They have some meaning.
Anyway, if these are the choices, put birds and plants (instead of buildings).
Just when paper banknotes will be slowly ditched for digital money. This is brilliant EU-style democracy in action. This reminds of the 2 last times my country offered a real democratic vote (i.e. referendum): one was about shortening the time for our elected king from 7 to 5 years (in 2000) and the other one was about the EU Constitution (in 2005), to which most of my fellow citizens voted ‘no’ but their choice has never been acknowledged.
The questions could have been better.
Like: First set is so very messy, way too much on one side . That makes them - sorry, but I give just my opinion - really ugly. And some others look like play money....
Thank goodnes there was also a simple, easy to the eye set.
Like: First set is so very messy, way too much on one side . That makes them - sorry, but I give just my opinion - really ugly. And some others look like play money....
Thank goodnes there was also a simple, easy to the eye set.
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The site is closed for submissions for new names, but the archive is vast.
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They were involved in helping to get the Mary Anning statue built, to support the young girl's efforts
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Enough gloom and doom for now.
I just updated the #OpenStreetMap contributor stats at wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/St… for Q2 2026. And yes, we have an all time high in monthly contributors, surpassing the likely pandemic driven peak in early 2021. And next month might be even better.
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@aaron no (except if something fundamental has changed most new users start with iD and that is a good thing). But running the numbers right now ....
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Interesting - I'm not sure if I fully get it right now, I'm super tired at the moment ^^ maybe you can explain that a bit more further?
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@aaron it simply illustrates that most new users start off with iD (the browser embedded editor), then with the editor function in maps.me/organic.map/comaps (that is likely mostly comaps these days), then SC with a couple of percent, and the reset us all < 1 percent. DeFlock is new (started end of last year) and moving things around.
What the graph doesn't show, which in the end is more important, is mapper retention which overall is the thing that matters.
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ahh I see, thanks a lot - yeah, that's the thing with many projects, right? people see something, get excited, start to do something and then it fades away... few people take on the challenge to be there for the long run to contribute.
And there's a corresponding peak in the monthly edits
That is great, and surprising to be honest.
@MBrandtner the active contributor number naturally includes new contributors in the same period and there is a noticeable up tick in new editors.
hey great news! I had been wondering about that apparent stagnation period when presenting about OSM. Will update my slides! 🤗
@stragu that bit is complicated though, one part of it is openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPo…
Then there is a natural and unavoidable shift from mapping terra incognita to gardening that will change activity patterns and the general attractiveness in well mapped areas. It just isn't social media and their metrics for success simply don't apply.
Updated contributor statistics for 2018
Ive just updated the contributor statistics for the whole year 2018.OpenStreetMap
thanks for the extra info! I wasn't aware of the Maps.me impact, that explains things.
I guess the kind of contributions and size of changesets evolve in interesting ways too, from foundational to maintenance, from wide scale to micro-mapping, and from large change sets to bitesize refining from mobile apps (Organic Maps, OsmAnd, StreetComplete...).
I guess the kind of contributions and size of changesets evolve in interesting ways too, from foundational to maintenance, from wide scale to micro-mapping, and from large change sets to bitesize refining from mobile apps (Organic Maps, OsmAnd, StreetComplete...).
What do you think is motivating the increased edits?
@Jeremiah I need to travel in autumn, so no I'm not going to point out the obvious.
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i wonder if some of this is from people suggesting OSM contribution instead of Pokemon Go in light of Niantic being evil.
That's awesome, I hope it continues to grow steadily.
If I added a place through Open Street Map, is that counted here?
Edit: seems it does.
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