Monthly Archives: December 2011

Mappy New Year

Posted on December 31, 2011 by RWeait

Mappy New Year, everybody! May your year be filled with good GPS reception, legible survey notes, and prompt changeset uploads. Sydney Opera House Fireworks 2006 photo by Rob Chandler is licensed CC-By-SA

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Mappy Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2011 by HarryWood

…and thank you to all the generous donors who helped us reach our fund-raising target! Some time yesterday (just in time for Christmas!) the donation tracker hit 100% meaning we have successfully raised £15,000 to pay for a new database … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tasks

Posted on December 17, 2011 by RWeait

Contribute to the OpenStreetMap developer community by getting involved in the Top Ten Tasks! OpenStreetMap is huge, with an extensive and varied community. Our data is used in applications for specialty and general audiences, for devices common and rare. The … Continue reading →

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Languages and OpenStreetMap Foundation

Posted on December 8, 2011 by RWeait

In March 2011 the Communication Working Group tried to make the OSMF accessible to more people by posting in more languages. As a test we added German and French to the OSMF Blog. We’re still working on improving this by … Continue reading →

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Funding drive – Improving OSM reliability and performance

Posted on December 1, 2011 by HarryWood

Pound Coins photo by William Warby CC-BY-2.0 OpenStreetMap is growing fast. We’ve recently welcomed our 500,000th signed up user, and we’ve logged our 10.000.000 th update to the map. Over the next few weeks we’re running a fund-raising drive while … Continue reading →

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