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Ulf Möller
The OpenStreetMap Foundation has learned of the death of our friend and colleague, Ulf Möller. Update: Help find the killer Ulf’s family have asked if we can help find Ulf’s killer(s)? Please see the photos of the murder suspects and … Continue reading
Mappy New Year
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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Top Ten Tasks
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
Languages and OpenStreetMap Foundation
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
SotM 2012 Call for Venues is now open
We’ve had 5 great State of the Map conferences. Manchester, Limerick, Amsterdam, Girona and Denver. Big question is: where are we going to be in 2012? We would like to have your help with finding a great venue for the … Continue reading
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ODbL progress
We’re planning the final stages of the switch over to the Open Database License for OpenStreetMap data. The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board discussed the license upgrade process and many other aspects of the project at their recent board meeting, and we’ll … Continue reading
What’s new on OpenStreetMap.org?
We spend a lot of time talking about the amazing map our users are producing, but perhaps not enough about the technology that enables it all. But it’s worth shouting about: from the reliable Ruby code that puts stuff into … Continue reading
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Tagged "all duck and no paddle", potlatch, potlatch dev, rails, rails dev, site improvement, swan
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Tile Usage Policy
We’ve had to block some uses of the OpenStreetMap Foundation tile servers. This article describes what is happening and why. This article also describes how you can adapt if you are affected. We’re really proud of the increased popularity of … Continue reading
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Tagged bulk download, mobile application, tile server, tile usage policy
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State of the Map 2011 wrap up
The fifth annual OpenStreetMap conference, State of the Map, wrapped up in Denver, Colorado recently. Even if you were not able to join the fun in Denver, you can still enjoy parts of the event. Conference sessions were recorded by … Continue reading
More new servers
The OpenStreetMap Foundation, and the Operations Working Group, would like to thank Nokia UK Limited for the donation of some of their redundant server hardware. This hardware has found new purpose in the form of “soup“[1] and “fiddlestick“[2], two new … Continue reading