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Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap
18 years ago, OSM Founder Steve Coast posted this invitation to OpenStreetmap’s 1st birthday party.
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Some of the best things that happen in the OpenStreetMap community are small: micro-mapping contributions from around the world, a Saturday mapping party, an editathon to improve OSM Wiki, or a hackathon to fix issues on some of the tools that we use. Most of them run on volunteer time and can occasionally stall for…
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2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
OpenStreetMap will take a large leap forward with the introduction of vector tiles on openstreetmap.org this year. This is the first of a series of blog posts where we will share our progress.
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Routing on OpenStreetMap.org
Good news for OpenStreetMap: the main website now has A-to-B routing (directions) built in to the homepage! This will be huge for the OSM project. Kudos to Richard Fairhurst and everyone who helped get this up and running.
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Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org
We are happy to announce the deployment of Vector Tiles on OpenStreetMap Foundation servers and the publication of the layer on the OSM website ! We have been working hard to bring you a fresh look to OSM data, paired with exciting technological upgrades.
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OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor
If you click the edit button today on OpenStreetMap, you will find a new, easier to use in-browser editor.
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We’re 10 today
On our tenth birthday we can look back on a year in which our free and open world map has gone from strength to strength, being deployed by large companies such as Apple, Mapquest and Foursquare, and relief organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and the American Red Cross.