Category Archives: osm.org

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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What’s new on OpenStreetMap.org?

Posted on November 8, 2011 by RWeait

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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Rails development list

Posted on September 6, 2011 by RWeait

Richard Fairhurst announced: A new mailing list has been created for fixing and enhancing the core Ruby on Rails-powered openstreetmap.org site. It’s rails-dev@openstreetmap.org and you can subscribe at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/rails-dev . See the complete announcement on the dev list

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Downtime announcement: 23 June 2011

Posted on June 9, 2011 by RWeait

Thursday 23rd June 2011 7:30am (GMT/UTC+0) the API and map data editing on www.openstreetmap.org will be unavailable. The maintenance period is expected to last for 12 hours. The following services will be unavailable during the maintenance period: API, editing features … Continue reading →

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Tile server upgrade

Posted on May 9, 2011 by RWeait

The OpenStreetMap server team has upgraded the tile server to render changes faster. Demand for OpenStreetMap tiles has increased steadily as the project grows. Recent increases in demand for tiles has lead to long waiting times for mappers who want … Continue reading →

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New Changeset display

Posted on May 6, 2011 by RWeait

The OpenStreetMap web site was updated today. When you view the history tab, you’ll now see a map with bounding boxes shown for recent changesets in the area. Hovering over the changeset will highlight the bounding box, and vice-versa. This … Continue reading →

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Potlatch 2 is here

Posted on April 5, 2011 by HarryWood

OpenStreetMap editing just got faster smarter and smoother! We’ve done the switch-over to Potlatch version 2 on the ‘edit’ tab of the OpenStreetMap homepage. If you haven’t tried it already, click that ‘edit’ tab and get mapping! This represents a … Continue reading →

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OSMF Logo Competition

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Ulfm

The OSMF recently launched a new mediawiki powered site at http://www.osmfoundation.org/ with a basic logo. We’d love to have a logo that better reflects the foundation, and would like to follow the success of crowd sourcing a logo for the … Continue reading →

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