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2009

walking papers lives. Round trip mapping: print out a map from OpenStreetMap, walk around annotating it with a pen, then scan the result back in (a QR code ensures the area and orientation is recognised) . Specifically targeted at eye-level stuff which can’t be collected using GPS or aerial imagery alone. When I grow up, I want to be Mike Migurski.

# 7th June 2009, 1:47 pm / michal-migurski, walkingpapers, openstreetmap, papernet, mapping

Map Maker for Developers. Tiles from Google’s Map Maker crowdsourcing effort are now available in the JS and static maps APIs on an opt-in basis. Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here, but Google Map Maker seems like a big step backwards for open geographic data. People donate their mapping efforts to Google, who keep them—unlike OpenStreetMap, where the donated efforts are made available under a Creative Commons license.

# 21st February 2009, 9:05 am / openstreetmap, googlemapmaker, google, creativecommons, crowdsourcing, google-maps-api, staticmaps

CloudMade: A Summary of the Future of Mapping. CloudMade are now offering commercially supported APIs on top of OpenStreetMap, including geocoding, routing and tile access libraries in Python/Ruby/Java and a very neat theming tool that lets you design your own map styles. This is really going to kick innovation around OpenStreetMap up a notch.

# 17th February 2009, 11:25 am / openstreetmap, cloudmade, mapping, python, ruby, java, geocoding, routing, tiles

OSM needs new servers. OpenStreetMap need to raise £10,000 to buy a new API database server.

# 5th February 2009, 7:27 pm / openstreetmap, donations, fundraising

OpenStreetMap is growing rapidly across all of Africa. Mapping is spreading through local mappers, mappers on vacation, foreign nationals, and remote mapping using satellite imagery. A recent comparison judged that OSM had the most comprehensive coverage of Africa among web mapping services, especially in cities.

Mikel Maron

# 23rd January 2009, 5:13 pm / mikel-maron, openstreetmap, africa, mapping

Gaza OpenStreetMap Update. “We’re looking into purchasing satellite imagery for the north or the entirety of Gaza. There’s actually B/W imagery available from yesterday!”

# 7th January 2009, 11:10 pm / gaza, openstreetmap, mapping, satellite, mikel-maron

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits (via) Stunningly beautiful visualisation of the year in OpenStreetMap.

# 2nd January 2009, 10:34 am / visualisation, openstreetmap, mapping

2008

Oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad? Michal Migurski’s experiments with heat maps for Oakland Crimespotting, using OpenStreetMap data as that allows him to position his heat map layer underneath the street labels, keeping them legible.

# 30th December 2008, 10:16 am / openstreetmap, michal-migurski, mapping, heatmaps, oaklandcrimespotting

cascadenik: cascading sheets of style for mapnik. Great idea. Mapnik (the open source tile rendering system used by OpenStreetMap and others) has a complex style configuration based on XML. Michal Migurski has build a CSS-style equivalent which compiles down to XML, hopefully making it much quicker and easier to get started with Mapnik customisation.

# 30th August 2008, 10:04 am / css, xml, mapnik, michal-migurski, mapping, openstreetmap, cascadenik

Around the world and back again. Flickr are using data from OpenStreetMap to provide street-level detail of Beijing for the Olympics.

# 13th August 2008, 11:05 pm / openstreetmap, mapping, flickr, beijing, china, olympics

OSM routing, A*, cycle-filtered, python (via) A python library for finding routes using OpenStreetMap data.

# 5th July 2008, 3:13 pm / python, routing, osm, mapping, openstreetmap

Berlin Zoo on OpenStreetMap. Someone has added all of the animal enclosures in Berlin Zoo (with German animal names) to OpenStreetMap.

# 5th July 2008, 3:07 pm / openstreetmap, berlinzoo, mapping, zoos, german

OSM Super-Strength Export. Awesome new feature on OpenStreetMap: you can browse to anywhere on the map, then hit “export” and download a rendered bitmap or vector (PDF and SVG) image of the currently displayed map—and because it’s OSM there’s no watermark and a very liberal usage license.

# 22nd April 2008, 9:56 am / openstreetmap, maps, mapping, svg, pdf, vector

i am near (via) Inspired by wikinear.com and powered by FireEagle, currently just showing nearby pubs from OpenStreetMap but with more stuff planned. I love the URL scheme—pubs.iamnear.net.

# 4th April 2008, 7:53 am / pubs, fireeagle, openstreetmap, iamnear, tom-taylor, urls, wikinear

2007

OpenStreetMap on the iPhone! Via an ingenious hack. The Google Maps iPhone client caches downloaded tiles using SQLite—to display your own custom tiles, you just need to dump them straight in to the “cache”.

# 22nd October 2007, 3:30 pm / sqlite, google-maps, iphone, openstreetmap, mikel-maron

Information Freeway (via) Really lovely interface to Open Street Map, sadly suffering from a horribly vague name and almost no publicity at all.

# 14th October 2007, 11:58 pm / mapping, maps, openstreetmap

AND donate entire Netherlands to OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap just got a whole lot bigger.

# 4th July 2007, 8:26 pm / netherlands, and, openstreetmap, steve-coast

OpenStreetMap Baghdad. OSM has mapped the streets by tracing from aerial imagery, but needs help with the names of the streets.

# 22nd February 2007, 7:48 am / openstreetmap, baghdad, iraq

2006

Yahoo! aerial imagery in OpenStreetMap. Tracing is allowed. This should speed things up an awful lot.

# 4th December 2006, 1:17 pm / openstreetmap, yahoo, maps