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OpenStreetMap hits 100,000 users
Blog The OpenStreetMap project (OSM) now has over 100,000 registered users, as of 16th March. Declaration of interest: I'm both a contributor to OSM and a member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation) If you're not familiar with OSM, it's a free, editable map...
[March 17, 2009, 11:49]
OpenStreetMap has Ugandan discussions
Blog One such good idea has been happening in Uganda: Using OpenStreetMap mapping to help with rural development projects. Robert Soden of US communications firm Development Seed has been working with some development groups working in Bigoda, a small...
[October 29, 2009, 13:03]
Flickr links photos to OpenStreetMap
Blog Yahoo's photo sharing site, Flickr has announced support for OpenStreetMap data in photo tags. By adding a tag to your photo linking it to the relevant object in OSM, Flickr can retrieve details, such as the name of a feature, from OpenStreetMap...
[September 29, 2009, 8:47]
MapOSMatic - city maps from OpenStreetMap
Blog A group of French developers and contributors to OpenStreetMap have created MapOSMatic which creates maps with grids and street indexes for a given area. It's a fantastic example of what can be done with free geodata and open source software.
[September 11, 2009, 12:03]
Extreme OpenStreetMap
Blog Contributors to the OpenStreetMap project use GPS receivers to log their travels along highways, byways and any tracks they can find. However, one contributor from Japan decided to take things one step further.
[April 9, 2009, 14:10]
Update OpenStreetMap - on paper
Blog This is an interesting idea: Print out a map from OpenStreetMap of an area you know well, or visit often, annotate the paper copy, then upload the scan so the OSM data can be updated, using the annotated scan as a background layer in online OSM...
[June 5, 2009, 13:43]
OpenStreetMap on Series 60
Blog One example application the labs has come up with is an OpenStreetMap viewer for S60 which downloads and caches map tiles. Qt Labs (the Company Formerly Known As Trolltech) has been busy porting the Qt toolkit to Series 60, Nokia's UI for the...
[August 5, 2009, 15:35]
A good week for OpenStreetMap
Blog It's quite an exciting time for the folks involved in OpenStreetMap (which includes me). While there are still plenty of gaps in OpenStreetMap, things are looking bright for open geodata. On 5th Feburary an appeal was launched to raise £10,000 for...
[February 11, 2009, 11:14]
MapOSMatic - city maps from OpenStreetMap
Blog Comment Sorry, but Gilles did NOT participate at the development of MapOSMatic. MapOSMatic authors are (from http://maposmatic.org/about/): David Decotigny Frédéric Lehobey David Mentré Maxime Petazzoni Thomas Petazzoni
[September 11, 2009, 9:24]
MapOSMatic - city maps from OpenStreetMap
Blog Comment Many apologies - I made the mistake of confusing coming up with the original idea with the actual hard work at the keyboard. Happy to set the record straight.
[September 11, 2009, 11:42]
Mappity Quakes
Downloads You can see exactly earthquakes occurred with the OpenStreetMap based map view or view the most recent earthquakes as a list. It features custom mapping based on OpenStreetMap data, earthquake data from the USGS, handy links to report earthquakes...
[August 10, 2009, 10:06]
CloudMade Betas New Map Editing Tool
Blog CloudMade last made an appearance on ZDNetUK as part of an OpenStreetMap themed blog back in February of this year when the company’s involvement with the free and editable map of the world project was starting to gain pace.
[December 2, 2009, 14:26]
The battle for digital mapping starts
Blog Comment Earlier this year I wrote about the OpenStreetMap project which is slowly but surely gathering geographic data about the whole planet. The advantage of freely licensed geodata like OpenStreetMap is that you can do pretty much anything you like with...
[November 8, 2007, 14:59]
When your social media marketing fails, it fails in public
Blog I may have mentioned my involvement in OpenStreetMap once or twice before. Perhaps the biggest mistake though, was to try to pitch a mapping service to someone promoting an OpenStreetMap event. Getting your marketing right is always important, but...
[December 3, 2009, 17:03]
AFTrack91 - GPS Tracking for 3rd Edition
Downloads Uses internal gps now.More info and GPS plugin at afischer-online.de Features: Six views to the GPS data - position, goto, track summary, map, altitude profile, satellite Degree or UTM format Edit position in selected output format Tracking the...
[January 18, 2007, 7:00]
Trails Lite GPS Tracker
Downloads You can view your recordings (live or later) on an OpenStreetMap (the Wikipedia for maps).Switch between road and topographic maps. Trails allows you to easily import tracks and follow hikes of others.Record maps while hiking, on bike trips or...
[March 11, 2009, 6:55]
EasyMap for S60 3rd and 5th Edition
Downloads EasyMap is based on Openstreetmap and offers three different map types: Mapnik is the perfect Street Map, the Cycle Map was developed for all Outdoor fans and Osmarender is a beautiful CityMap. New GPS-Map-Solution with three map types and...
[August 19, 2009, 8:00]
Mappity Amsterdam
Downloads It features the entire map is stored on your iPhone, location crosshairs similar to the built-in Maps applications, street level map detail for all of Amsterdam, and custom mapping based on OpenStreetMap data.
[August 10, 2009, 10:21]
Mappity Berlin
Downloads It features the entire map is stored on your iPhone or iPod Touch, location crosshairs similar to the built-in Maps applications.street level map detail for all of Berlin, and custom mapping based on OpenStreetMap data.
[August 10, 2009, 10:32]
AFTrack - GPS Tracking
Downloads Mapping, routing and more.More info at afischer-online.de Features: Six views to the GPS data - position, goto, track summary, map, altitude profile, satellite Degree or UTM format Edit position in selected output format Tracking the current way...
[June 13, 2004, 8:00]
