Here’s another video chat, this time with Jon Burgess of the crack ninja OpenStreetMap server team. Check out youtube below or grab the video over here.
Chats with OSMF board members
Here’s another video podcast with OSMF board members Andy Robinson, Mike Collinson, Henk Hoff and Ulf Möller. Again these were at the 5th anniversary party. You can find the podcast here and below watch it in vimeo:
Chats with OpenStreetMap Foundation board members from Steve Coast on Vimeo.
Roadee review
Check out this review at the unofficial apple weblog of Roadee, a iPhone nav app which uses OSM:
Yes, all true. I’m talking about Roadee, an iPhone nav app that depends on the open sourced openstreetmap.com. That eliminates the high fees paid to license map data, and allows a nav app for under 2 bucks.
Cakes at the 5th Anniversary Party
Remember the amazing cake made for OSMs birthday the other week? Well I somewhat rashly promised a bottle of champagne for anyone who did something similar at the London party, so of course two people brought cakes.
Check out the videos of Matt and Greg’s efforts in this youtube video (which will also show up as a podcast video if your subscribed). Topics vary away from just cakes on to broader OSM subjects, and the very fun living with dragons. YouTube is still processing the video so check back if it’s not working yet.
CNN picks up Wired OSM Story
Read all about it here!
Thanks to Clark Asay
Clark Asay helps the Foundation with many issues around the license transition and couldn’t be at the State of the Map conference in Amsterdam last month for all the fun in-person discussions around it. So we thought we’d print a map and have the attendees sign it as a note of thanks. And here we are, so thanks Clark!
What do people edit with?
Check out the map above that RichardF highlighted in this post some time ago. It shows OSM data coloured by the editor software. Blue is potlatch, red is josm, green is merkaartor and grey is anything (say, JOSM or imports) since not all editors declare themselves there is an ‘everything else’ category. And of course it was built by the eponymous Matt.
OSM on the front page of Wired
Last month, when Zack Ajmal was planning a vacation to Italy, he set out to find the first thing that a traveler would need in a foreign land: a map. But digital maps of Rome and Venice for his Garmin GPS device cost almost $100. So instead, Ajmal turned to OpenStreetMap, a community-driven maps database.
“It worked out pretty well,” the Atlanta-based engineer says. “I found Open MTB, which had outdoor hiking and cycling maps with not just roads information, but also trails, short cuts and little known routes.”
MetaPlaces in San Jose
Check out the MetaPlaces conference in San Jose in September. Good crowd of speakers including yours truly.
As Tyler Bell of Yahoo! is quoted on the website:
“I’m delighted to see this focus on an holistic location aware experience and business. The future of geo technologies has very much outgrown its origins in the traditional automotive sector.”
Now you’re 5…
When you’re 5 years old you get asked questions like “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Well, OpenStreetMap is 5 years old and there are a few answers to that question. But maybe a good first answer would be “banned on Google Enterprise maps”. You must of made an impact by then, huh? And yes, it’s true!
[…] You agree not to, and not to allow third parties or Your End Users, to use the Services or Content: […] to use or display Tele Atlas’ US Address Points obtained from the Services on a base map comprised of map data or content provided by International Publishers NV, NavNGo Kft., NAVTEQ Corporation, OpenStreetMap Foundation, or Zenrin Co., Ltd. […]
Check it out on the Google Maps API Premier Acceptable Use Policy.
