The OpenStreetMap Foundation has learned of the death of our friend and colleague, Ulf Möller.
Update: Help find the killer
Ulf’s family have asked if we can help find Ulf’s killer(s)? Please see the photos of the murder suspects and help if you can.
Ulf Möller, 1972 - 2012
Ulf discovered OpenStreetMap in 2007 and mapped in Munich and Hamburg as well as in other countries. He was the first German elected to the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board in 2009/2010 and served on the License Working Group with attention to detail, concern for the German OpenStreetMap community and courteous persistence.
The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board offers sincere condolences to Ulf’s family on behalf of the OpenStreetMap community. We are saddened and shocked by his untimely death.
The family has requested privacy at this difficult time. Please use the comments in this post to share your memories of Ulf and condolences for the family. They will know where to find them when they are ready.
Ulf’s family has kindly provided the above photograph of Ulf as we will remember him; Smiling, happy, cycling, and apparently mapping with his GPS.
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I remember ulfm as being an even-keeled person. Sorry to have lost him.
Very sad news… I am sorry for your loss.
I have known Ulf only from our monthly OSM meetings and mapping weekends in Munich.
He was friendly, helpful and positively driven. A really good guy.
Ulf will be missed.
Ulf was a great person and he did a great job for the OSM community, donating a part of his life time to improve the life of others.
Now it seems that people terminated his life that do not even know what donation means.
Too bad. I´m very sorry for your loss.
I also met Ulf a few times on the monthly OSM meeting in Munich and we had good talks. He appeard to me as an open minded, positivly thinking guy.
Ulf will be missed. I’m very sorry for your loss.
Ulf helped shaping my image of the OSM community as being a positive one, open to discussions and with a drive to push things further. That’s how I perceived his engagement and that’s why his loss is leaving such a big gap behind. My condolences to the people close to him.
I was shocked to hear these news.
I knew Ulf from our OSM Meetings in Munich, we traveled together to the SOTMeu in Vienna.
My sincerest condolences to the family. He will always live on in our hearts and memories.
Sad.
Died much too young.
But his eager contributions to a great project and all his edits to the map will stay, and will even be with us everywhere we go.
Whenever we have our GPS with us.
Go map heaven for us, Ulf, with all the harps and clouds!
We need a map when we arrive.
Lulu-Ann
What a horrible death.
The last time I saw him he was still at school – and then I moved to Namibia and lost contact.
His death was a shock, also because I thought Germany was a safer place than the country I am in right now. People here are sometimes killed for cell phones but an EC card is not that different.
What a nice guy and what he could have given to this world with his keen mind, friendliness and commitment.
HJ