Thanks to a kind donation and work from Grant Slater, you can now get to OpenStreetMap via osm.org!
State of the Map Scholarship Winners
Congratulations to the 15 scholarship recipients. We had 35 nominations, from 19 countries, so no easy choice. Thanks to all the nominations .. we hope you can all attend as well.
Will be extremely great to have all these mappers together in Amsterdam!
- Abdel Hassan from Cairo, Egypt
- Anas Maraqa from Palestinian West Bank
- Anatolie Golovco from Moldova
- Arlindo Pereira from Brazil
- Arun Ganesh from Chennai, India
- Asif Rasul from Punjab, Pakistan
- Ciprian Talaba from Romania
- Claudomiro Nascimento Jr from Brazil
- Marloue O. Pidor from the Phillippines
- Freddy Rivera from Colombia
- Giorgi Gujabidze from Tbilisi, Georgia
- H.S. Rai from Punjab, India
- Jorge Luis BATISTA EchevarrÃa from Havana, Cuba
- Julio Costa Zambelli from Vina del Mar, Chile
- Khanh Le Ngoc Quoc from Vietnam
- Nic Roets from Johannesburg, South Africa
InterAction article on OpenStreetMap Gaza
In the latest issue of Monday Developments OpenStreetMap Gaza is a featured case study in the article “Community Contribution of Geospatial Data”.
Monday Developments is the monthly magazine of InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian non-governmental organizations .. a growing and important part of the OpenStreetMap community.
Podcast: James Fee
Here is a podcast I did with James Fee of the Spatially Adjusted blog. James is a geoconsultant with a wide range of industry experience and is based in Arizona. We talk about OSM, ESRI, data market places and geocommons amongst other topics.
Remember you can subscribe to the opengeodata podcast in 
or use the raw feed here.
The most sincere form of flattery
Imitation, but sadly without acknowledgment of authorship. Yes, Google invented mapping parties after all 🙂 [via FakeEd]
In other news, FakeSteveC has been helping on the mapmaker forums.
Obama maps on whitehouse.gov
Hot on the heels of Tim Berners-Lee in a OSM jacket comes the mother of cool – OBAMAPS – whitehouse.gov/change/ is using OSM-based maps! w00t!
New SotM logo!
A New Logo for the State of the Map from stateofthemap.org:
“The logo for this year’s State of the Map was designed by Sofiya Merkulova and was chosen from over 35 designs. The SOTM09 organizing committee felt that Sofia’s design was powerful, fun and conveyed the global nature of OpenStreetMap and SOTM09.
The organizing committee’s congratulations go to Sofia and our thanks go to all of the competition entrants. It was not an easy choice to make, but we’ve now got a great logo for a conference that is shaping up to be the best State of the Map yet.
The logos are available under a Creative Commons Licence. You can download a bundle that includes different resolutions and greyscale versions here.”
Discounts available for OpenStreetMappers to attend Where 2.0
The title says it all. The guys at O’Reilly have given a generous 20% off the ticket price for this year’s Where 2.0 conference to anyone involved in OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMappers always make a prominent appearance at Where 2.0 and this year is no exception. To get your discount, use the code “whr09osm”.
If you’re in the Bay Area for Where 2.0, make sure you come along to WhereCamp, the unconference for geo-hackers, mappers and location people. You can find out more about WhereCamp here.
Call for Presentations for the State of the Map 2009 Closes Soon
The call for papers for the State of the Map 2009 closes on the 3rd May. Â You have just over one more week to get your presentations in. Â As a reminder, here are the themes for this year’s conference:
- OSM 2011 – How do we take OpenStreetMap from 100,000 to 1,000,000 contributors?
- New Mapping Frontiers – Learn how OpenStreetMap is expanding into new communities, new regions and mapping new features.
- OpenStreetMap Application Development – Hear about the latest and greatest applications developed by the OpenStreetMap community
- Tools Tips and Techniques – Get expert advice from the people who created the tools! Â Learn about editors, map renderers and more.
We had some fantastic submissions and ideas so far, on subjects ranging from how OSM can combine data from other sources to create a richer map, exploration of the quality of OSM data, how we’ll build the community out to 1,000,000 contributors to building the next generation of slippy maps that will render vector data in the browser. Â If you like OSM, you’ll love the State of the Map.
OSM API 0.6 on the way
The OpenStreetMap API is now in Read Only mode while the upgrade/migration to 0.6 is undertaken. The API will be in this mode (or at times totally unavailable) until the changes are complete, which at the moment is expected to be some time on Monday April 20th.
During the upgrade OSM contributors will not be able to save their editing to the OSM database and the online editor, potlatch, will be disabled.
Once the upgrade is complete be sure to also upgrade your OSM editing software to ensure compatibility with API 0.6. Potlatch will be updated as part of the migration process.
For up-to date progress keep an eye on the front page of the wiki or drop in on IRC to #OSM
For more information on the upgrade see here
