Marco Montanari · Bologna

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

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Index of works

№ 01

Open History Map

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. Beside the collection of data we are now working on our own MCP server enabling better control of historical LLM content.

stack pythonpostgismaplibreopenstreetmapmcp

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Open Fantasy Maps

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. It now exposes more than 40+ maps for around 10 playing settngs usable as backdrop for rpg plays via mapping technologies but also as a reference for aventure creation supporting LLMs via specific MCP servers.

stack pythonpostgismaplibremcprpg

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Just Play Bologna

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

stack angularnetlify

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E-Dway

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.

stack pythondockerangularflutterpostgresqlredisfastapidjango

↗ Site ↗ Repo

№ 05

City Open Source

I was responsible for the first migration from Wordpress (for Mappi-na) to the first iteration of CityOpenSource, and now I am working on the latest iteration

stack nodenext.jsposrgresqlvercel

↗ Site

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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

stack pythonangulargisdata sciencearchitecture

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Practice

Data ScienceData VisualizationGISPythonReactAngularSoftware ArchitectureWeb ArchitectureCloud Architecture

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Topology

A logic map of how the practice fits together — tools coloured by region, architectural features named like cartography (peak, ridge, range, archipelago), hairlines for the connections I work across daily.

Geospatial
Languages
Backend & data
Frontend
AI / LLM
Real-time
Platform
Allied
Architecture

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Marginalia

Non-profit

Wikimedia Italy treasurer
OpenStreetMap volunteer
Just Play Bologna president
Open History Map president
Mensa Italy treasurer
onData volunteer
Monithon volunteer

Hobbies

Piano, music and sound
Cinema, literature
Architecture, urbanistics
Archaeology, history
Boardgames, videogames

Social

facebook twitter deviantart medium slideshare linkedin github gitlab bitbucket docker soundcloud youtube twitch flickr steam boardgamegeek wikipedia openstreetmap orcid

Recognition

2021 Shuttleworth Flash Grant

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Formerly

Mappi-na Monithon ASOC Invento

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Dispatches

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Support

If the open work here is useful to you, you can back it directly. GitHub Sponsors goes to all open-source efforts; Patreon supports Open Fantasy Maps specifically.