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Ambassador (retired) '''Allan Mustard''' is a member of the Advisory Board of the Caspian Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. He was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan on November 25, 2014 and retired from that position in June 2019 after almost 38 years of public service. He previously served as an agricultural officer at U.S. Embassies in New Delhi, Mexico City, Moscow, Vienna, and at the American Consulate General in Istanbul. He managed the computer center for the Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2000-2002. He speaks fluent Russian, basic German and very basic Spanish. He delivered the keynote address at the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t5DxV7cXgQ&list=PLQNy8KsDknCr92fIXYcOKL42U35wRAV9Y&index=3 2016 SOTM] and the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpHLulm-Wq4 banquet speech at the 2019 NACIS] conference on use of OSM in mapping Turkmenistan. Ambassador Mustard resides in Falls Church, Virginia, United States.

* [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Apm-wa User:Apm-wa on the wiki] | [https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/apm-wa User:apm-wa OSM Profile]

 

----'''Guillaume Rischard ''' from Luxembourg maps as [http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Stereo Stereo], which is easier to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4U_bVf9xFE&t=53s pronounce]. When he discovered OpenStreetMap in 2008, there were only a few main roads displayed around him. He didn’t take the project seriously. In 2011, he ran into it again, and saw that the map had become a lot more detailed. He spotted a missing name, and when he saw it displayed on the map when he refreshed right after saving it, he was hooked. When he uploads a changeset, he still likes to open that place in his browser while it still hasn’t rendered, open the same URL in a new tab a few seconds later, then switch between the tabs.

He is a member of the Data Working Group and Membership Working Group, and occasionally contributes to the OSM Weekly.

 

 

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