Openstreetmap

22 September 2008, 5:43 pm

How OpenStreetMap should really work

Thanks to mike. If you are reading this via RSS and don’t see anything below, view the post. ...

9 September 2008, 1:19 am

Progress maps

geofabrik’s progress maps of the world are very impressive Each shows OSM growth over the years and you can play with the fun interactive slider version....

9 September 2008, 1:10 am

Check out these maps made with OpenStreetMap data by Brandon Martin-Anderson of graphserver fame. Each shows a tree of shortest path routes starting from a point. The thickness appears to indicate th...

7 September 2008, 1:47 am

Maps are dead, long live maps!

I’ve been struck by three new (new to me, anyway) maps which are all in dead tree format. They’re all different takes on making your average paper map more usable in some way and I’l...

31 July 2008, 5:48 pm

We’re on a road to everywhere

This post was sparked off by some very dubious reporting of OpenStreetMap plus continued misunderstanding about what OpenStreetMap actually “maps” by some of the public at large. So its time to s...

24 July 2008, 7:34 pm

Map the Caribbean

Gervase Markham has set up a pledge: “I will spend an hour OpenStreetMapping features on Caribbean islands from Yahoo! aerial imagery and will also donate £10 to the OpenStreetMap Foundation bu...

24 June 2008, 6:21 am

Google Want to be TeleAtlas

Google have launched MapMaker, a kind of faux OpenStreetMap where they own all the data and you’re only allowed to map in certain Freedom Of Speech Zones. Like Knol, the mooted ‘wikipedia ...

21 June 2008, 1:03 am

OSM for traffic data

Check out eworld, a tool which imports and visualizes OSM data and allows the adding of events that are interesting for traffic simulation, e.g. weather conditions or road works. All this data are pas...

10 June 2008, 5:41 pm

London to Brighton

Everyone has their own reasons for enjoying OpenStreetMap, but for me, cycling is the “killer app” - in that OSM gives you the best cycling maps in the world (on the web and on your GPS),...

9 June 2008, 8:29 pm

Volunteers needed now. OSM for Myanmar disaster relief.

Are you familiar with setting up Mapnik and TileCache, and other components of the OSM stack? Do you want to volunteer time to help support disaster relief in Myanmar? We’re urgently looking for...