The #OpenStreetMap Foundation spends, even with a slightly more ambitious budget this year than previously, less than %1 of what WMF/Wikipedia does, but is struggling to make ends meet.
There is no threat a la the infamous Wikipedia ads that the project will shut down, but without the funds activities will have to be cut back significantly.
#OrganicMaps is here. Use it while offline and feel good about a #privacy-respecting app that doesn't suck you dry of your personal information. Based on #OpenStreetMap this app is gonna blow #Google#Maps out of the water (hopefully ;)
Cameras can be identified by location and type, the area being observed can be disclosed.
Surveillance under Surveillance/https://sunders.uber.space is an OpenStreetMap instance focused on surveillance cameras, it uses data that is not visualized on the OpenStreetMap.org instance.
OpenStreetMap data is free, we only ask that you tell people about us in exchange¹.
Some site use OSM without attribution, and hotlink to OSMF tile servers. 😭 Our data is free, but our servers cost time & money. 🖥 It's now even easier for you to report naughty sites like that. 📝 They can (eventually) be blocked from freeloading. We hope this will increase visibility of OSM! 👍 🎉
📬 You've got mail! Germany's national postal service (Deutsche Post/DHL) has switched to OpenStreetMap for their public facing websites, https://deutschepost.de, https://dhl.de. 🎉🥳🎊🎁
🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”
I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…
There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org! The Tracestrack Topo map from @tracestrack.
It's a mix of osm-carto and OpenTopoMap. It has many improvements: more tag support (busway, embankment, cuisine, solar plants, aquaculture, pitch, sea, tree etc.), CJK fonts, etc. There is
also better internationalisation: country specific road shields, peaks
using imperial system in the US, hierarchical place rendering in China, etc. #OpenStreetMap#OSM#gischat#maps
An unfortunate reality of our moment is that (1) lots of us feel powerless to help deal with the various disasters floating around us and (2) there are lots of such disasters, often so bad they impact our physical (mapped) world.
There are now over 11,000 followers to this M̶a̶s̶t̶o̶d̶o̶n̶ Mapstodon account! 😍
The future of mapping is maps controlled by the people for the people, not big corporations or governments.
The future of social media is social media controlled by the people for the people, not big corporations or governments.
With the news that Google is going to "supercharge" Maps with "AI" (and the poor results I've had with Apple Maps), I finally checked out OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
OMG THIS IS AMAZING. So much more useful detail! Incredible! Going to dig up an app for my phone and use this for a while to see how it compares to the ad- and AI-ridden nonsense.
If you'd like to contribute to #OpenStreetMap but feel lost and unsure where to begin, I can recommend getting StreetComplete, which turns filling out OSM data fields into a game of completing quests in your local area. You'll get questions like "What's the road surface here?" or "What are the opening times for this shop?" or "What's the house number of this house?" and can just go there and check and then answer. Very convenient for me who don't understand GIS and OSM!
Si durant vos balades familiales de fin d'année vous croisez des boîtes à livres, assurez vous qu'elles sont déclarées sur https://www.boites-a-livres.fr/ (et donc #openstreetmap ) et sinon pensez à les signaler, avec photo si possible. Je viens d'ajouter un formulaire sur le site, je m'occuperai de la mise en ligne sur OpenStreetMap et Wikimédia Commons pour une diffusion de l'information la plus large possible ! #communs#geocommuns