The 2nd anniversary bash in London was a good success with 30-odd people turning up. Get your picture fix and more! 🙂
Futuresonic
I’ll be speaking at Futuresonic in a week and a bits time in Manchester. The program looks awsome, and follows on from mapchester.
OpenStreetMap 2nd Birthday Party!
UPDATED Flame in person in the relaxed atmosphere of a pub at OSM’s 2nd anniversary party. Argue the finer points of GPS devices. Find out what people look like.
Where: Porter House, Covent Garden
When: Saturday 12th August, 1:30pm onward
Nestoria launches
Nestoria is a sweet UK-based tool for finding property. Not really what I’d usually mention on this blog but they’ve sponsored the initial work on mapstraction, which makes them very cool! You too should think this is cool because work like this allows more development of openstreetmap. I’ll let them explain why it’s a good idea:
Why does Nestoria sponsor Mapstraction? The past year internet users have benefited from an unprecedented level of innovation in online mapping. We’re interested in providing Nestoria users with the best possible user experience. Right now we think that means using Google maps. But in the future that might well mean using maps from someone else, perhaps even the open source mapping service being developed by OpenStreetMap. Mapstraction will give us the greatest flexibility to always provide you, the user, with a compelling mapping service.
OSM gets its 20 millionth GPS point
That’s about 231 straight days worth of GPS data if you conservatively have it at 1 point a second. It actually represents a much longer time since a lot of people go out and collect track data for a few hours a day at most, and often at less frequent intervals than 1 hertz. The lucky point (48.30426, 11.919947) was in this GPX upload.
Where?
OSM San Jose comparison
Interesting article from mikel: San Jose, largest city in Silicon Valley, is a rapidly sprawling suburban metropolis. This unsustainable mode of development is generally considered detrimental to open space, consumed by low density housing, energy resources, squandered on car dominated transportation, and community, split apart by satellite dishes and 6 lane roads. But what is bad for the environment is still brilliant for OpenStreetMap!
Pubmap the first app to be mapstraction powered
Mapstraction, the API which abstracts away the mapping API’s has seen quite a bit of work today, to the point that it now runs the google and yahoo versions of the site. Switching between API’s is now trivial! Well, for pubmap anyway. There is still a ways to go.
Nick’s Progress
Nick Black is keeping a blog of his OSM activities which include his Masters thesis…
Where 2.0 podcasts
With Where 2.0 coming up it might be good to listen to last years where 2.0 talks on the excellent IT Conversations network. There are some good talks, you just hear them 9-12 months after the event it seems. O’Reilly are missing a trick, I think people would pay to hear them… or maybe they already do?
