Hi, my name is Pascal Neis. I am a regular guy with some programming skills, living in the beautiful Taunus in the near of Wiesbaden (Hesse).
You might remember me from such projects like “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?“, “Your OSM HeatMap“, OSMFight or OpenRouteService.
On this webpage you will find my blog with some stuff I’ve worked on … a really nice overview of my posts is >here<!
And these are the latest three Blog Posts:
- Where are the new OpenStreetMap Contributors? - Since past Friday the OpenStreetMap project has more than 600 000 registered members. As many of you may know, not every new registered member starts contributing to the project right away. Based on my "How did you contribute to OSM?" database I created a small (but neat) webpage ... Read more! (Date: 2012/04/29 - Comments: 10)
- Which country has the most OpenStreetMap GPS Points? - Some of you might already know that OpenStreetMap released a first bulk GPS point dataset last week. It contains almost 2.8 milliard (or for readers in the US 2.8 billion) points and is provided in its raw format ... Read more! (Date: 2012/04/06 - Comments: 12)
- Welcome to the new OpenStreetMap Contributors! The beginning of a radical change? - Many blog posts reported in the past few weeks about Google’s changes to their Google Maps API and the new usage limits. If a website that implemented the Google Maps API receives too much traffic or hits e.g. more than 25,000 per day, charges will apply. This news caused some websites to start looking for alternatives and some of them switched to the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project ... Read more! (Date: 2012/03/11 - Comments: 3)
