Handling failed uploads properly

Some of the readers may have experienced the sinking feeling when they just attempted to upload dozens if not 100s of changes and a network glitch ...

Opening Musings

Way back in 2015 I wrote this diary post Is OSM business unfriendly? on how core OSM limiting itself to data collection had fostered a bustling eco...

The 20% drop in new contributors (preliminary analysis)

I haven’t done a contributor statistics diary post in a long time, but I suspect that the latest update of the graphs on the wiki is likely to lead...

The earth is defintely flat (OSM and the GDPR)

Four years ago on May the 25th 2018 the, then new, EU-wide General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) went in to force. It is therefore quite fitti...