Our humble abode for three days, at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego in middle July. Emma Lyons (Cloudmade’s summer intern) and I had a great time running this booth. We put it together pretty frugally, with a table drape for a sign, a couple of photo frames cycling through Best of OSM images. We gave away huge numbers of buttons and pens, and after the first day, we had Cloudmade-sponsored OSM T-Shirts to give away. Oh, we surely got popular THEN! Talked to a lot of people about OSM. I used the line “Can I tell you about OpenStreetMap?” if anybody paused. Most people stayed to listen to my 30 second spiel. The booth cost us nothing because we were representing a non-profit, and given the contacts we made, was definitely worth the time. I encourage everyone to seek out opportunities to represent OSM at a trade show.
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Update on flooding
David E writes:
“The temporary Workington North station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workington_North_railway_station), set up to link the northern and southern residents of Workington, and due to open today, is already there:”
MapZen POI collector & iLOE now in the App Store
OpenStreetMap Clocks
You can now make your own OpenStreetMap based physical clock for a €120!
OpenFloodMapping
England has been hit by a lot of flooding, even washing bridges away. OpenStreetMap is there, keeping the map up to date by removing the bridges from the map:
OSM Coffee Mug
Where’s yours? Get one here!
OSM in the NYT, and almost the front page too!
See the article here.
Then you win: Ordnance Survey to open data
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Gandhi.
See story here.
The Prime Minister and Communities Secretary John Denham will today announce that the public will have more access to Ordnance Survey maps from next year, as part of a Government drive to open up data to improve transparency.
Speaking at a seminar on Smarter Government in Downing Street later today, attended by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, the Prime Minister will set out how the Government and Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, will open up its data relating to electoral and local authority boundaries, postcode areas and mid scale mapping information.
Ericsson Labs OSM library
Ericsson labs have released an OSM library:
A couple of months ago we released support for OpenStreetMap maps for our Web Maps API and the Java ME version of the Mobile Maps API. We are now happy to release it for the Android version of our Mobile Maps API. Mobile Maps for Android with OpenStreetMap allows any developer to integrate the maps from the OpenStreetMap project into any Android application and have them rendered in the fast and dynamic Mobile Maps engine.
