On Saturday, 8th of August 2020,
we will celebrate 16 years of OpenStreetMap!
Planning an online party or mapathon?
You can use the BigBlueButton video server of the OpenStreetMap Foundation! To get a free account and your own video room, please signup.
- You can use your video room even after the birthday, for any OSM-related event.
- Community members in low-bandwidth environments may benefit from using BigBlueButton’s low-bandwidth settings.
- Please add your event to the OSM wiki! If wiki editing isn’t your thing, email communication@osmfoundation.org with your event details and we’ll add it 🙂
Other ideas
- Post why you love OpenStreetMap. We will publish a collection of messages later 🙂
- Post a photo of yourself holding a written message 🙂
- Use the hashtag #OpenStreetMap16 on social media
- Make/order a birthday cake. See previous examples of OSM cakes for inspiration. Don’t forget the attribution!
- If your photos are accompanied with the text “CC-BY-SA 2.0” (or another open license), we can add them to the OSM wiki (or feel free to add them yourself! ~ register here).
- Do you have more ideas? Share them in the comments 🙂
Join us!
Observance of the anniversary of the creation of OpenStreetMap is held on or about the 9th of August, which is the anniversary of the registration of the OpenStreetMap.org domain name. The concept of OpenStreetMap predates the domain name registration, but that seems a suitable anniversary date 🙂
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The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, formed to support the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data for anyone to use and share. The OpenStreetMap Foundation owns and maintains the infrastructure of the OpenStreetMap project, is financially supported by membership fees and donations, and organises the annual, international State of the Map conference. It has no full-time employees and it is supporting the OpenStreetMap project through the work of our volunteer Working Groups. Please consider becoming a member of the Foundation.
OpenStreetMap was founded in 2004 and is a international project to create a free map of the world. To do so, we, thousands of volunteers, collect data about roads, railways, rivers, forests, buildings and a lot more worldwide. Our map data can be downloaded for free by everyone and used for any purpose – including commercial usage. It is possible to produce your own maps which highlight certain features, to calculate routes etc. OpenStreetMap is increasingly used when one needs maps which can be very quickly, or easily, updated.
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Happy birthday, Openstreetmap!
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Happy birthday and have a happy birthday!
Wish to all Happy Anniversary For OSM…
Happy birthday for OSM…
Happy birthday for awesome OSM!
Happy 16th Anniversary for OSM!
Knowing that the greatest story still lies ahead, and it’s yours to tell
Congratulations! Let’s continue to make fun maps.
Congratulations! Let’s continue to make fun maps
Happy 16th Anniversary OSM !!
one of the best maps and you have helped many times.
Thanks for the service.
Feliz Aniversario OSM:
Espero que tengan muchas bendiciones en todo sobre su proyecto y que sigan adelante en mejorar MAPS ME, pero por favor cuando realicen la actualización no echen a perder todo, porque muchos usuarios tenemos las versiones anteriores de su aplicativo ya compradas disfrutando lo mejor del servicio que ustedes nos brindan y estamos muy satisfechos, pero no queremos cada rato desinstalar e instalar cada momento cuando informan la nueva actualización en su producto y ya seria una perdida de tiempo para los demás usuarios y sobre todo yo.
Ya que tuve un problema con problemas con las actualizaciones de su aplicativo y que es la versión:
10.1.4
ya que cuando instale la aplicación me sentí incomodo y cuando use el mapa me indicaba que debo contar con conexión a internet, y todos sabemos que su aplicativo no necesita internet, ni tampoco Wifi.
Así que me quedo con la versión 10.0.5 en mi teléfono móvil y me siento mucho mejor.
Y me petición de cumpleaños es que deberían informar finalmente a todos los usuarios desde su oficial desde la Google Play Store y Apple Store que cuentan con la versión de MAPS ME en su dispositivo Android y IOS:
9.6.1
10.0.3
10.0.5
Estará estable sin problema alguno si cuentan con la aplicación instalada sin anuncios (comprar la aplicación para la eliminación de publicidad) y no aparecerá el aviso de descarga la nueva actualización definitivamente de MAPS ME, y la tendrán de por vida.
Pero las que tienen recién instalada la aplicación que es gratis y pero con la aparición de publicidad, se le informara que aparecerá la nueva actualización de MAPS ME cada mes.
Ya que mañana es su aniversario y también el mío me gustaría que cumplieran esta petición el día de mañana para mi cumpleaños para que todos los usuarios estén muy felices y no insatisfechos para que sigan usando MAPS ME y sobre todo yo.
Muchos Éxitos para ustedes y Dios les bendiga.
Hola Luis 🙂
Gracias por tus deseos y comentarios y feliz cumpleaños para mañana! 🙂
El proyecto OpenStreetMap está apoyado por la Fundación OpenStreetMap (https://wiki.osmfoundation.org) y no tenemos una aplicación oficial. Hay muchas aplicaciones disponibles usando los datos de OSM (estamos proporcionando los datos de forma gratuita a todo el mundo), creadas por empresas o por miembros de la comunidad.
La aplicación Maps.me está creada por una empresa, así que recomendamos contactar con ellos directamente.
https://support.maps.me/hc/es
Hay otras aplicaciones que permiten descargar mapas basados en OSM, como OsmAnd.
Vea las aplicaciones para Android usando nuestros datos en
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android#OpenStreetMap_applications
Gracias de nuevo por tus deseos de cumpleaños 🙂
Por favor, tenga en cuenta que este mensaje fue traducido automáticamente.
Manténgase a salvo 🙂
Saludos cordiales desde Grecia,
Dorothea,
Voluntario del Grupo de Trabajo de Comunicación de OSM
Traducción realizada con la versión gratuita del traductor http://www.DeepL.com/Translator
Happy 16th anniversary OSM you have brought remote parts of the world to the world map that’s wonderful job.
Much has been achieved, and much remains to be done if we want to continue being an alternative to Google Maps and HERE.
I am not speaking about mapping, but building the right foundation of the project.
* More focus on the map and its rendering on the frontpage and less on the Database
* A better Geocoder
* A moderation/review model
* the lack of Permanent IDs
* API v0.6 is eleven years old
The key challenges are outlined here:
https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/02/16/osm-is-in-trouble/
Happy 16th Anniversary OSM
happy birthday
my name is ahmad i’m from Kurdistan region of Iraq
Happy 16th Anniversary OSM
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Wish to all Happy Anniversary For OSM…
Thanks OpenStreetMap, keeping my info private (from Google, at least) for years now!
Be proud to be part of the solution, not the problem.
Happy 16th Anniversary.
Much love.
Happy birthday (~ ̄▽ ̄)~
Así dice el Señor Rey David Gómez Estrada que está en Tepic Nayarit México en la Colonia Lázaro Cárdenas calle Michoacán número 85 teléfono mexicano 3320 100 350 plotter todo por el café si les falta de médicos todos los chicos todos los gobiernos
Happy Birthday Open Stree Map
HHAPPY BIRTHDAY OpenStreetMap, In Niger we bigning it at 06 june 2013 in ABDOU MOUMOUNI UNIVERSTY with Mapping for Niger Project https://mappingforniger.wordpress.com/ And created OSM Niger at the end of project mapping for Niger december 2013 https://sahelblog-alidoukam.blogspot.com/2015/08/genese-de-openstreetmap-niger-osm-niger.html . Thinks and nice OSM, We contribut on it, our country is so loading litle by litle https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=6/17.560/8.833.
Thinks for all contibuties OSM in the Word
FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!!/HAPPYBIRTHDAY!!
Happy 16th Anniversary OSM !!
Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap DOT Org !!!
I use you guys long time since i discovered an alternative to the ill intentions of the mainstream commercial map sites out there. I do not use any of the go ‘ogle services (being u ‘tube an exception unfortunately due my passion to music) and products.
I had donated in the past and will do again soon surely.
In this world full of spy apps you are a bless and comfort, keep up the awesome work and never sell yourselves to the money/control/war temptations.
All the best! And enjoy the cake! 😉
Cheers.
祝賀OSM已經6歲了~生日快樂~
Congratulations to OSM for being 6 years old~Happy Birthday~!
happy birthday!
16th Happy Birthday!….Congratulation
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happy birthday!
good lucky to you!
Happy Birthday OSM!
I’m late…
Happy HappyBIRTHDAY OSM