http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18249-innovation-making-a-map-for-everyone-by-everyone.html

'Crowdsourcing a map of the world, and letting anybody edit it, might sound supremely democratic, but until now it has been a largely exclusive game. Unless you're familiar with cartographic jargon, you haven't been able to play.'

Here is an interesting source of radio transponder stations,
I found them in the climategate data files :

Historical International Station Catalogue

http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/radiosglobe/stations_sorting_lists/stnlist-historical.html

here are the files:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5186415/Climategate

http://88.80.16.63/leak/climactic-research-unit-foi-leaked-data.zip

Can we add these to OSM?

mike

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/26/waze_pac_man/

Waze isn't the only crowdsourced mapping project - OpenStreetMap is also trying to map the world using GPS-equipped volunteers tramping about the place recording details. Waze is the only one who offers virtual rewards to those who take the time to visit badly-mapped places, however. OpenStreetMap hold parties there instead.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/happy-national-geography-week/

A New Way to Use GPS

You probably know about GPS devices—maybe you even let one guide you to new destinations. But you can also use many GPS devices to gather data for Wiki maps at OpenStreetMap.org. Have students travel around their home area, gathering map data. Help them upload their data to the Web site.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/19/digital-media-aol-foursquare-local-news-patch-peer
AOL sees revenues in local: Its CEO, Tim Armstrong, announced yesterday in New York that it plans to digitize entire towns with the help of Patch, the hyperlocal network it bought last year. Armstrong clearly sees a hole in the market here and plans to cover every aspect of community life from school boards to restaurants and shops. "We're hiring reporters," Armstrong said according to the business journal Portfolio.com. "Can you imagine that?"

Patch just switched to OpenStreetMap and appears to be busy with building its own map infrastructure, including designing, rendering and hosting its own tiles, according to zdnet. But that is not all. "Patch will go into stores, photograph everything and even tell consumers how many parking spaces there are," Armstrong said. "Even though it will have only 30 local communities outside New York City initially, it will scale substantially."

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3206875

CloudMade is gearing up to release a set of tools that will enable people to quickly and easily contribute to the OpenStreetMap project.
At the same time the company is looking to create a developer model that will enable developers to use OpenStreetMap data and databases in their websites and iPhone applications.

"There are really two sides to this, there's a community facing side called Mapzen and a developer platform," said Nick Black, Founder of CloudMade.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10399029-250.html
Crowdsourcing cartography with PublicEarth and OpenStreetMap

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/technology/internet/17maps.html?_r=1
Some people think map data is so valuable that it should be free. OpenStreetMap, a nonprofit group whose mission is to make free maps that can be reused by anyone, has some 180,000 contributors who have mapped many countries in varying levels of detail. The maps are used on a White House Web site that tracks community service opportunities and in many iPhone applications, among other places.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=new-micro-mapping-software-lets-tra-2009-11-11

QUOTE: "One of OpenStreetMap's key benefits is the ability for participants to create and share maps based upon specific interests, which is impossible with printed local maps distributed by hotel concierges or amusement parks"

I thought that we should add argeltown as well so that when google deletes it we will know where it was.
osm.org/browse/node/559172336

see this article:
http://www.systemed.net/blog/

OSM peeps at LUGRADIO :
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Happenings-LugRadio-Live-2009-846208.html
While at LugRadio Live The H attended a number of talks and met with people and groups in the exhibition area. This year's exhibition area included, for example, members of the OpenStreetMap project, who were recruiting more volunteers, members of Manchester Free Software and members of the Open Rights Group

Openstreetmap being used to map Kenyan Slum :
http://appfrica.net/blog/2009/11/03/openstreetmaps-to-map-kenyan-slum/

French Article in Major Newspaper : le monde Openstreetmap
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2009/11/03/quand-les-internautes-jouent-aux-cartographes_1262139_651865.html

http://firstlook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/finding-greener-pastures-with-times-apis/
Suburbified uses the Times Article Search API to gather locations and phrases from the "Living In" series of columns. Each week, these columns describe a New York City neighborhood or suburb. Using OpenStreetMap, Suburbified displays the profiled suburbs on a zoomable map.

http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/155622.shtml

Wireshark Wireshark 1.2.0 has : GeoIP database lookups. OpenStreetMap GeoIP integration

OpenStreetMap has Ugandan discussions in ZDNET:
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014327o-2000331765b,00.htm

http://www.intomobile.com/2009/10/29/there-is-only-one-way-someone-can-beat-google-at-the-mapping-game-now.html

There is only one way someone can beat Google at the mapping game now (OSM)
"Google disrupted the mapping space by making navigation free, your turn to disrupt the mapping space by making maps free as in speech."

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3315
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap (OSM) founder, Steve Coast, opened the conference and touched on many, many significant issues. The one that sticks with me: "We trust our contributors." The comparison of OSM to Linux and Wikipedia may make some nervous, depending on their feelings about that operating system and encyclopedia. As a user of both of those things, his discussion made me more confident in the vision and inevitable growth and usage of OSM.

mike

The guardian mentions openstreetmap,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/28/3d-world-map-internet

A guy has created a 3d virtual world using openstreetmap data :
http://www.victorkeegan.com/Victor_Keegan/Creative_technology/Creative_technology.html

Video here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tVcAuNpgk8

Twitter :
http://twitter.com/vickeegan

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3305

In addition, with the emergence of OpenStreetMap and other local free data sources, the primary question is, "Why should I license commercial data when free data is available?"

Idea: export the entire data storage of openstreetmap osm into wikipedia on git. Use cached rendered pages checked in. all layers generated by local layers from json data.

check my new video on svn-git
full video 1:5h introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters http://www.archive.org/details/SvnGitVideo

Here I show the monopoly, openstreetmap and google maps tos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JFPocoI-WI

Here I read the mapmaker tos and explain why is Sux!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crmsIJFjgY4

Do you know these people?

I got this on facebook :
Please repost this photo. Let's see if 6 degrees works. I found a camera while biking just North of Kapalua on Maui at the end of July. I would like these people to get their camera and picture of their child back, if you know them email me at gbpniko@yahoo.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/h4ck3rm1k3/4014008138/

Video version here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTqmf0j3PLk

Your openstreetmap news for today:

Google changes data provider, adds in feedback mechanism to maps, openstreetmap mentioned.
http://searchengineland.com/tectonic-shifts-altering-the-terrain-at-google-maps-27783

A new start up wants to create a database of open data, like openstreetmap:
Mentioned today in new article. Looks like a copy.
http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/news-groundbreaking-factual-com-launches-new-open-data-platform-r-1255452418

H4ck3rm1k3 - for all things g33k. (tm)

Your openstreetmap news for today:

Atlanta Georgia announces huge mapathon push for openstreetmap
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8305924.stm

A new start up wants to create a database of open data, like openstreetmap:
http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/

H4ck3rm1k3 - for all things g33k. (tm)

Hi all,
I had added a border polygon for kosovo for easy extracting osmosis of kosovo points, the problems were many :

1. shared points with features.
2. duplicate points with other items.

it is finally gone.
osm.org/browse/changeset/2843120?node_page=1

Ideally we would have a border relation, not a way.

more to come. But soon we will have no duplicate points at all in kosovo....

mike

I have started to apply my infamous wikireader to the OSM wiki,
here is the first video. Before you complain, just imagine if you were blind for a minute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyOuyVb9VS0

Update:
Source code checked
in https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesmikedupont/introspectorreader/wikipedia-strategy

Because it is so cold outside, I have decided to add in all the camps from antartica.

Update:

Here is a nice picture of the Laurie Island
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3285256&id=523456582