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About me

I am Marco Montanari, a coder, developer, software architect, visionary. Simply put, I’m a strange engineer who loves Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Sociology, Theology. And I love urbanistics and architecture (because both are expressions of the previous list).

Hobbies

Piano, music and sound

Cinema, literature

Architecture, urbanistics

Archaeology, history

Boardgames, videogames

Non-profit

Wikimedia Italy

OpenStreetMap

Just Play Bologna

Open History Map

Mensa Italy

onData

Monithon

Additional

2021 Shuttleworth Flash Grant Shuttleworth Funded

IngMMo.com

What I do

Open History Map is a project started in 2016 in Bologna with the aim of the creation of an Open Street Map of the past. I am president and software architect and developer for the project, using many amazing techs.

Open Fantasy MAps is a project started in 2020 in Bologna based on the work of Open History Map with the aim of the creation of an Open Street Map of fantasy worlds.

Just Play is a boardgame players association founded in the outskirts of Bologna. It is also a place where we are experimenting with software aided gaming, started during the COVID-19 pandemic

E-Dway is a bike sharing platform written in python, docker, angular and flutter. I am the lead architect and main developer of the platform.

Freelance work/Consulting

Send me a mail at marco.montanari@gmail.com for inquiries. My specialities are Data Science, Angular, GIS and geographic data management, python and web architectures

What I write

We live in interesting times...

2025-02-20

...echbros at the inaugurationElon fa il saluto romano. I techbros sono tutti in prima fila all’inauguration di Trump. Scatta il delirio. “Biso...


OHM Morning at ArcheoFOSS2021...

2021-11-01

...unced a few weeks ago, news were underway for AcheoFOSS2021, and so here they are. The 26 of November we will have a whole morning for prese...


OHM @ FOSS4G...

2021-10-28

..., as every time. This has been my 4th FOSS4G and beside the missing social interactions with people all around the world and the missing exp...


Upcoming conferences and talks...

2021-08-23

...e intense for Open History Map. The conferences we will be talking at are many and the topics are various. At Hack4OpenGlam (20/9–24/9) we ...


Wikmania 2021...

2021-08-23

...-only world of conferences, here is our presentation at WIkimania 2021: https://medium.com/media/14dbac6e75ddc51519bd5a7284bc3bfd/hrefand he...


The trace of terror in time...

2021-08-02

.... In one of the worst periods of Italian history, right wing extemists and subversive branches of the government were involved in the organi...


On side products of openness...

2021-07-06

...be thrown away. In addition to that, you have an interesting twist of the “idea vs apple” metaphore. Specifically, data thought and usable f...


OHM Data Index...

2021-05-14

...pdate for a project that was a very central side project for our activities. Based on the great work Open Knowledge Foundation put into the ...


Who lives, Who dies, Who tells...

2020-11-17

...es, Who dies, Who tells your story” si conclude Hamilton, musical del 2016 tornato alle cronache durante il lockdown perchè rilasciato il 4 ...


OHM — What has been happening...

2020-09-17

...n 1590 ca.The aim of OHM is and has always been, since 2017, making historical maps something to deeply interact with with modern tools. Giv...