Both this blog and openstreetmap have been nominated for the New Statesman New Media Awards, which is nice!
Category Archives: Media
SVG Map of Sutton Coldfield
Andy Robinson has produced a large and featureful SVG map of Sutton Coldfield using the aforementioned Osmarender and OpenStreetMap.
Click the image below to get an idea of how far we’ve come, and see Andy’s entry on the OpenStreetMap wiki for a link to the SVG version and more about how it was made.
— Tom
Podcast: Ed Parsons
One of the cool things about wordpress 2.0 is that you can drop an mp3 in to it and it magically becomes a podcast, including the RSS feed bits (so yes, you can subscribe to this feed in iTunes). I thought it would be useful to talk to people within openstreetmap and slightly further afield in the geo community as openstreetmap grows beyond everyone knowing each other. If you have a story to tell please get in touch, it’s likely I might ask to talk to you anyway 🙂 You can discuss this cast, and maybe help transcribe it if that’s useful here. The first cast is me speaking to Ed Parsons who is CTO of the OS and says some pretty intersting things, but has detractors. You can find the 21Mb mp3 here. Enjoy.
Free Our Data
Ed notes (and dislikes) this piece in the Guardian about how taxpayer funded map data should be Free. The article isn’t limited to geodata and fails to mention openstreetmap like previous articles so perhaps it has an industry source. They make good work of the juicy target – the OS – and mention the Peter Weiss article.
More interestingly they bring up other examples like the Hydrographic Office’s somewhat mad scheme of copyrighting tide tables.
Why Europe Needs to Provide its Own Public Geodata
Interesting INSPIRE centric article about how all the National Mapping Agencies will consolidate their holdings through EU Directive(s). I’m really still puzzling over why this is important. I think creating our own data is going to be better than political engagement on this, the NMAs are very well entrenched and we already hold the moral high ground.
In the news…
The Guardian has an article about open mapping today, including quotes from yours truely. There are bugs in the story, but its pretty good all over.
