Remember when you book your flights to Where 2.0 that WhereCamp is afterward on May 17-18th at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.
WhereCamp at Yahoo! last year was a total blast and I’m hoping for more werewolf games!
Category Archives: Fun
Historic animation
Check out this lovely historic animation over here of OSM over the years.
ZXV OSM week
We at ZXV are working for a week to improve OSM. So far today we have Xin getting up to speed with OSM, Nick looking at name finder and I (SteveC) have added the friend map to the default user page and closed bug 578. We’ll be keeping our blog up to date.
OSM Mentioned in KDE 4 keynote at the big G
House building
Tom has a nice post about not making your map animations look like a 1942 bombing raid, viz the below image of ’91 forest fires in Oakland which also show up in work that he/Stamen did.
Oh and Ben at lunch mentioned paleo-future which is well worth a look.
OSM cycle maps in every Cambridge house
David Earl (who mapped much of Cambridge) writes to the talk list to say “OSMers may be interested to know that this map […] is currently being distributed to every home in Cambridge and most Cambridge University students via the colleges.”
Awsome
OSM eats itself
Fake SteveC joins Fake Ed Parsons
OSM Brighton launched
On all accounts the OSM Brighton launch went swimmingly with posters distributed to all:
It was also the launch day for The Deckchair Guide – a guide to Brighton – using OSM maps!
Falklands, mapped
Stanley in The Falklands are now mapped thanks to work by Russ Phillips
Google gets collaborative
Google now let you fix their bad geocoding for free. It probably breaks their own license terms, but hey, let’s help them get back above $700/share. 🙂
