Following the successful participation in last year’s event, OpenStreetMap has again been selected as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization. We invite students to looking through our project ideas or discuss their own OSM-related ideas with our community. Applications can be submitted starting March 14. More information for students are available from our wiki […]
If you head over to OpenStreetMap.org and click on the layers button on the right of the map, you are provided a selection of map layers to choose from. This is possible due to the nature of OpenStreetMap – by distributing open geographic data we enable others to produce a map from OpenStreetMap data in […]
Community and communication are key to the success of OpenStreetMap project, yet discussions about individual edits have always been clumsy and awkward. In this post, I’ll describe Changeset Discussions, a new feature of the OSM website which allows people to have public discussions around changesets. Before Changeset Discussions Before the introduction of Changeset Discussions, the only […]
May 20th, 2013 – June 3rd, 2013 A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world. Lokku and Mapbox made large donations to the OSM Server Funding 2013. Thanks guys. You can also donate here! Three OSM related projects of the Google Summer of Code have been accepted: OSM: Cached API proxy, Surveying […]
February 11th, 2013 – February 25th, 2013 A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world. The next global State of the Map 2013 conference will take place in Birmingham (UK), September 6th-8th. If you would like to particip…
April 23th, 2012 – May 7th, 2012 A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) world. The latest news about the license change and the data rebuild-process. The OSM project has more than 600 000 registered members now. Pascal cr…
April 17th, 2011 – May 3th, 2011 A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world. The OSMF Strategy Working Group requested for collaboration for a review of the “Articles of Association“. And they tries to improve the OSM main si…
March 9th, 2011 – March 20th, 2011A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world: After the terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the OSM community started efforts to provide up-to-date maps of the affected region for search-…
02/24/2011 – 03/09/2011A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world: Registration for the SOTM.EU is now open. Early bird tickets are 60€. The organizing team announced, that they’ve confirmed Steve Coast as a keynote speaker. …
This weeks project is to re-visit the map of the last place you went on holiday and add as many ‘tourist’ features as you can remember, to make it easier for the next visitor. You can do this from memory, by looking through your holiday photos, or…
