Tag: OSM
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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What Impact has the OSM License Change in Germany on the Street Network Length? – 1st Attempt –
The OpenStreetMap project will possibly finalize its license change on April 1st 2012. There are certain concerns in the community about possible data losses and to keep them as little as possible…
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What type of Mapper are You?
Last weekend Frederik and Richard asked me if I could give some additional information on the „How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?“ webpage …
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OpenStreetMap in Germany (2007-2011)
Due to some requests by some German OpenStreetMap contributors, here a German blogpost about the results of the article: “The Street Network Evolution of Crowdsourced Maps: OpenStreetMap in Germany 2007–2011.” …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …