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Contact and Remap
A message from Michael Collinson and the Licensing Working Group “Hi everyone, We ask OSM mappers to check their local mapping areas, try and contact anyone who has not decided about re-licensing and then do as much remapping as you … Continue reading
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Database downtime – 3rd Feb
The primary database server will unavailable due to planned maintenance on Friday 3rd of February 2012 between 11:30 and 13:00 (GMT / UTC) (world clock). This is to carry out raid controller and bios updates, and a potential rack relocation … Continue reading
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Tokyo host for SoTM 2012
The SoTM organizing committee have just announced the winning bid for the 2012 International conference for OpenStreetMap. This year we’re going to… Tokyo, Japan! ‘Tokyo by Night’ photo CC-BY-2.0 user JeHu68 on flickr The annual event will be held September 6th-8th … Continue reading
Mappy Christmas!
…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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Funding drive – Improving OSM reliability and performance
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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Engineering Working Group + Hack Weekend
Back in August we announced the formation of the Engineering Working Group, tasked with trying to attract more developers by lowering barriers to entry. Since then we’ve seen some good technical coding work and other achievements in and around the activities of this group: … Continue reading
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ODbL data.gov.au permission granted
The Licensing Working Group has obtained explicit special permission to incorporate geographic datasets from data.gov.au in the OpenStreetMap project database published under any free and open license, including ODbL, provided that… a) we provide primary attribution in a reasonable manner … Continue reading
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New Board Members
Final votes were cast today at the Foundation AGM, and the results are in. Congratulations to our new board members: Richard Fairhurst, Matt Amos, and Dermot McNally Mikel Maron was also re-elected onto the board. [Update] : The votes tallied … Continue reading
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Vote for OpenStreetMap Foundation candidates for the Board
The 2011 election is under way for members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors. Further to our previous post, there’s now nine candidates to choose from, which is great! Members of the OSMF can vote in person at the … Continue reading
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Board elections and other OSMF changes
We’re about to see some changes to the OSMF. The most pressing thing to be aware of is the election of new board members: Board elections There are four board seats up for grabs, so this represents a considerable change … Continue reading
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