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  • New OpenStreetMap Germany Webpage

    The German OpenStreetMap project webpage has been online for three years now. During these years several small updates have been made to the page. But it is about time to create a complete new webpage …

  • OSM Routing View Worldwide 2011-11

    Really great news for all our non-European OSM Mappers: Since last month, the OSM Routing View is available for the whole world …

  • Updated Status for Unmapped Places

    The last unmapped places analysis for OpenStreetMap that I conducted is nearly eight months ago. So I figured it was about time to create a new one …

  • New OSM stats webpage

    Last weekend I discovered that two guys created a new statistic webpage for the OpenStreetMap project. Both guys did a really nice job! You can find a bunch of information about OSM members …

  • TimeSlider for “Your OSM HeatMap”

    During my really great vacation in Sweden I had some time to do some further adjustments to the well-known “Your OSM Heatmap”-webpage …

  • “Your OSM Heat Map” (aka Where did you contribute?)

    Based on my OSM changeset table of “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap ?” I created a slightly different webpage and used a different approach. I used the weekly OSM changeset files and I presented the results in an OpenStreetMap including zoom and drag functions. Your contributions are indicated by a “Heat-Map-Overlay” …

  • My gift to the 7th OSM Anniversary

    Most of you might already know that the OpenStreetMap project will celebrate its 7th Anniversary this month. Several events will take place on Saturday, 20 August 2011 at different locations around the world! A small gift …

  • Comparison of (OSM) routing-engines – Reloaded

    Maybe some of you remember that I conducted a comparison analysis between three OpenStreetMap (OSM) routing engine APIs (CloudMade, MapQuest Open and OSRM) and G**gle Maps API last week. You can find the results in my blog post here. As I mentioned in the article, I wanted to try to do a second analysis with…

  • The OpenStreetMap Evolution of Austria (2007-2011)

    Currently I am working on a research paper about the OpenStreetMap evolution of Germany. For the last AGIT conference in Salzburg and the upcoming “State of the Map Europe” (SotM-EU) conference in Vienna I did a similar analysis about the OpenStreetMap Evolution of Austria …

  • Do you wanna OSMfight today?

    Maybe some of you know the nice website: www.googlefight.com. You can enter two keywords and after that it starts a funny fight between these keywords. Based on the database of “How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?” I created …