The folks over at theTagzania blog just announced this:
Today, it’s a great day. The Gipúzcoa Provincial Council has released all its data in the B5M geo website under a free license.
B5M website screenshot
The “Legal information” page has some changes including what we believe is a license compatible with CC-BY: Continue reading
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:”
You can now make your own OpenStreetMap based physical clock for a €120!
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:
Where’s yours? Get one here!
See the article here.
“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 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.
