Open Street Map

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• Map Editors Comparison

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  Matt has an interesting post comparing Map Editors: I’ve been playing with the changeset data for OpenStreetMap and looking to see what patterns I can find in the usage of various editors since changesets were introduced in the API 0.6 migration. We can start off just looking at the major editors by distinct ...
  2 days ago

• OpenSlumMap

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  Mikel parachuted in to Kibera last month – a holiday destination known as the “second largest urban slum in Africa” – to make sure it’s all mapped. The results have been impressive: It includes a website , map data of course and social media including twitter and interviews: The press release ...
  5 days ago

• Map Kibera – The First Useful Humanitarian (Tech) Thing To Be Done In A While

  
  Aid Worker Daily — Authority: 92
  That may sound a little harsh but let’s face it – there are not a lot of people doing really original things out there these days. After my rant about how the only thing (tech) anyone should be doing is building a cache box OR helping Mikel map stuff, it is not surprising to find that the only really super ...
  6 days ago

• OpenSteetMap Potlach 2 Development Preview

  
  Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog — Authority: 521
  OpenSteetMap Potlach 2 Development Preview "Its not just an online map editor - its a Live Cartographic Online Editor" OpenStreetMap users are getting a brand new online cartographic editor in the form of Potlatch TWO (2.0) Potlatch 2 is a complete rewrite. Aim: Speed Ease-of-use ...
  1 week ago

• Introducing a new OSM editor… Potlatch 2

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  OpenStreetMap users will know all about Potlatch, the online editor that appears when you click the ‘Edit’ tab on the site. Well, there’s a whole new version coming soon! Potlatch 2 is a complete rewrite still with the same principle in mind: an editor which hits the right balance between speed, ease-of-use, ...
  1 week ago

• Update on flooding

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  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:”
  1 week ago

• State of the Map 2007 Videos – in HD!

  
  Shine — Authority: 100
  I wonder whether everyone missed the donations link last time, so I’ll put it first instead! Go on, drop a pound in the collections tin. When Jon Burgess found out that I was editing the 2008 videos, he dug out his recordings of the first SOTM conference and sent me a disk full of them. This time I ...
  1 week ago

• MapZen POI collector & iLOE now in the App Store

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  Click here to get the MapZen PoI Collector for your iPhone or here for iLOE – an OSM editor for the more advanced user. See the screenshots below for how easy it is to add and edit PoIs in OpenStreetMap on your iPhone!
  1 week ago

• OpenStreetMap in Athens – as accurate as London

  
  Po Ve Sham - Muki Haklay's personal blog — Authority: 402
  Most of the work that we carried out at UCL in evaluating the quality of OpenStreetMap is focused on England , and particularly on London . This is mainly due to the accessibility of comparative datasets. The reason for this was the availability of data, as the Ordnance Survey research unit kindly provided ...
  1 week ago

• OpenStreetMap Clocks

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  You can now make your own OpenStreetMap based physical clock for a €120!
  1 week ago

• The best map of Montezuma, Costa Rica I’ve ever seen.

  
  Gary Said... — Authority: 125
  I was looking at the Montezuma Beach web site the other day and I found the best map of Montezuma that I’ve ever seen. The town is mostly just those two blocks at the center of the top. Montezuma really isn’t that busy, it’s the names of all the places that take up space. It even shows the start of the path ...
  1 week ago

• OpenFloodMapping

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  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:
  1 week ago

• Crystallising Anarchy – Andy Allan

  
  cloudsourced — Authority: 104
  Part two of videos from the geoweb stream at the AGI GeoCommunity Conference 2009 – Andy Allan talking about innovative uses of OpenStreetMap data. Expect similar at tomorrow’s #GeoMob meetup, a few slots left here . Andy Allan – Crystallising Anarchy (Innovative Uses of OpenStreetMap Data) from ...
  2 weeks ago

• OSM in the NYT, and almost the front page too!

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  See the article here .
  2 weeks ago

• Then you win: Ordnance Survey to open data

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  “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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ericsson Labs OSM library

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey Meridian 2 – Progress maps

  
  Po Ve Sham - Muki Haklay's personal blog — Authority: 402
  As part of an update of the work that I have published in August 2008 , I re-run the comparison between OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey Meridian 2 dataset. In a future post I will provide a full report of this assessment. As I have completed the evaluation for October 2009 and re-evaluation of the data ...
  3 weeks ago

• Advantage West Midlands Using OpenStreetMap

  
  Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog — Authority: 521
  Advantage West Midlands Using OpenStreetMap One of the first commercial enterprises to fully take on crowdsourced maps A huge boost to OpenStreetMap Advantage West Midlands is the regional development agency (RDA) for the West Midlands. We are one of nine RDAs in England established to transform the English ...
  3 weeks ago

• OSM Continuous zoom video

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  
  3 weeks ago

• Scientific American on OSM

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 524
  Check out this article over at SciAM: It seems there’s an online community or social network for every facet of life these days. One area where this makes a lot of sense is in map-making, given how well locals know their own territory. This might explain why OpenStreetMap—a map of the world that can be edited ...
  3 weeks ago

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