OpenStreetMap News №8
- I don’t know about you, but I just found out that on the list of high-priority projects of the Free Software Foundation is the creation of a free alternative to Google Earth and the Foundation calls on everyone to help the OpenStreetMap and Marble projects. You can already try to use the free Marble program with free OSM maps instead of proprietary Google Earth.
- If you still do not know, we are already in Russia for more than 10 thousand people !
- One of the most popular navigation software, Skobbler for iOS and Android has become free. When the application was still paid, in Germany it was among the ten most frequently downloaded in the German online store iTunes Store (150,000 sales in 6 months).
- Specially prepared OpenStreetMap maps for your Kindle . This can only be done with OSM.
- The OpenLayers JavaScript library has been updated on the openstreetmap.org website: the OSM main site now supports touchscreen devices.
- A car without a driver drove 20 km through the city center using OpenStreetMap maps ( if I understood correctly , I did not find other sources).
- Google made a video about the famous project based on OpenStreetMap .
- A member of OpenStreetMap met ( video ) with the Minister of the Moscow Government.
- How to draw a map of Kaliningrad on OpenStreetMap .
- " In schools, they still draw paper contour maps. A boring and useless exercise. It would be better to teach schoolchildren to use and replenish OpenStreetMap ."
- LearnOSM.org is a simple, step by step website that will teach you how to make maps using OpenStreetMap.
- The OSM participants met in Kronstadt on October 1 (24 people participated in the meeting) and in Vladimir on September 17-18 .
- And even in Afghanistan, they are mapping the OpenStreetMap and using the OsmAnd Android app (perhaps the best navigation software) written by vics001 from Belorussia.
- Live Edit: where are OSM edited right now? See " OSM Live ", " khtml.org " or " GeoXP ".
- “Travel plans, information boards, meter map at the railway station, a booklet for hotels, a flyer for travelers” - pleasant trivia based on data from OpenStreetMap in a single city .
- 1Spatial and the University of Nottingham will work together on OpenStreetMap.
- OSMoumor: a dream about how all the bumps in the road will be brought into OSM and the cars will go smoothly even on uneven surfaces.
- This is a must see: railway hell ( source ).
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/130008/
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