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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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Engineering Working Group + Hack Weekend

Posted on November 22, 2011 by HarryWood

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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Mailing list moderation

Posted on July 7, 2011 by RWeait

After careful consideration, effective immediately Mikel Maron, Andy Robinson and Mike Collinson have access to the moderation system across the main OSM mailing lists. They will use their best judgment according to the moderation guidelines and they enjoy the full … Continue reading →

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OpenStreetMap on Television

Posted on April 12, 2011 by RWeait

[Updated 20 May 2011] Above is an image of London, from the OpenStreetMap Mapnik rendering style, as it appeared in an episode of K9. K9 is a television series for 11 to 15 year-old children, produced by Stewart & Wall … Continue reading →

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OSMF Board Interview Series – Henk Hoff

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Oliver

I had the chance to have a chat with all the board members during our Pisa meeting. See Henk about OpenStreetMap, SOTM and the community.

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OSMF Board Interview Series – Mikel Maron

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Oliver

I had the chance to have a chat with all the board members during our Pisa meeting. See Mikel about OpenStreetMap, humanitarian projects, HOT and Haiti.

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OSMF Board Interview Series – Emilie Laffray

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Oliver

I had the chance to have a chat with all the board members during our Pisa meeting. See Emilie on OpenStreetMap and the international community.

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