Category Archives: OSMF

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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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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SotM 2012 Call for Venues is now open

Posted on November 30, 2011 by RWeait

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

Posted on November 16, 2011 by RWeait

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 →

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Tile Usage Policy

Posted on November 1, 2011 by RWeait

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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State of the Map 2011 wrap up

Posted on September 28, 2011 by RWeait

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 →

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More new servers

Posted on September 20, 2011 by RWeait

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 →

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Introducing Zark

Posted on September 19, 2011 by RWeait

Zark is the newest OpenStreetMap server. Give Zark a warm welcome. Continuing the in the tradition of naming OSM servers after dragons, the name “Zark” is taken from the Eidolon Chronicles/Shadow World books by Jane Johnson. The first task for … Continue reading →

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New Board Members

Posted on September 12, 2011 by HarryWood

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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Board elections and other OSMF changes

Posted on August 26, 2011 by HarryWood

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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