After the successful pledge where people signed Jo’s minifesto and gave 10 pounds to support open geodata we have another pledge for you: “I will enter the location (coordinates from my GPS) and postcode of every place I visit (house, pub, shop..) to freethepostcode.org for a week but only if 10 other people will too.” Sign up here!

There is a good lineup at the WSFII in London on the Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd of October. I’ll be speaking there, at least.

Tom has written a whizzy new applet that I’ve put up to replace the horrid old one.

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Yes, its coming up to the one year anniversary of the arbitrarily chosen
domain registration timestamp! Fire up whois and behold 09-Aug-2004
18:47:25 UTC.

What: OSM Party 1.0. Beer then food by popular vote (Brick Lane?) Good
company, beer and mapping conversation. Special event at 18:47:25!

When: 9th Aug 2005, 6pm onward

Where: Strongroom Bar, 120-124 Curtain Road, LONDON, EC2A 3SQ

Map: streetmap
or OSM

Reminder will be sent at one week and at one day beforehand.

Thought I had done this some time ago: An mp3 of my talk is available here and the slides are here.

The whole editing interface has been rewritten. This blog has moved to /news, there is a static image viewer, the key-value system is half written and there is a new front page! Still lots to do…

opensteetmap has moved to a new machine, consolidating the api, applet and wiki.

So a lot has happened since the last post. The first actual street got entered today. Hopefully the site will move to php soon.

The applet has been rewritten to use openmap, which is cool. Also it loads a set amount of data and does it through a compressed stream. yay. Now need to add tools to delete temp points, add streets, and stuff. Oh and user authentication…