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[News] Web Sort of Turns 20, OpenStreetMap Reaches 6-Figure Milestone

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Come on, Sir Tim!

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| Stob It is twenty years since Tim Berners-Lee, then a humble techie at CERN, 
| sent a memorandum to his manager entitled Information Management: a Proposal. 
| 
| The Register is proud, on this important anniversary, to be republishing that 
| historic document for the first time, so that we can all reflect properly on 
| Sir Tim's achievement, and feel retrospectively superior to him for the 
| wretched syntax he devised to do HTML tables.   
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/17/verity_stob_glb/

OSM passes 100,000 users!

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| Sometime during Monday 16th March 2009 OpenStreetMap gained it’s 100,000th 
| registered user account! 
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http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=444


Recent:

OpenStreetMap: Birmingham digital remapping complete

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| Birmingham has become the first English city to be completely remapped by its
| own citizens. Maps of the city are freely editable and available at
| OpenStreetMap (OSM). The OpenStreetMap project, run by the OpenStreetMap
| Foundation, is an open source project that is building free online maps, not
| based on any copyright or licensed map data. Birmingham is not the first city
| to be remapped in this way, but it is the first city in the United Kingdom.
| Birmingham joins the likes of Paris, Berlin, Canberra and Vienna.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenStreetMap-Birmingham-digital-remapping-complete--/news/112597


OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

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| Maps are cool; there's no end of applications which can make good use of
| mapping data. There is plenty of map data around, but it's almost exclusively
| proprietary in nature. That makes this data hard to use with free
| applications; it's also inherently annoying. We, as taxpayers, own those
| streets; why should we have to pay somebody else to know where the streets
| are?
|
| Your editor likes to grumble about such things; meanwhile, the OpenStreetMap
| project (OSM) is busily doing something about it. OSM has put together a
| database and a set of tools making it easy for anybody to enter location data
| with the intent of producing a free mapping database with global coverage.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/303443/


OpenStreeMaps: free software's answer to Google and commercially-restricted
geo-data

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| In a recent article on free software and the Large Hadron Collider I
| mentioned that here in the United Kingdom The Guardian, a national British
| newspaper, had founded a campaign called “free our data”. They objected to
| the fact that the Ordnance Survey (and others), funded by the British
| taxpayer, was charging business and individuals for its cartographic data
| thus effectively making people pay for it twice. Their campaign is great but
| until such times as it succeeds an alternative is needed. A free software
| alternative. Enter OpenStreetMaps.
|
| [...]
|
| OpenStreetMaps is a classic instance of scratching an itch and instead of
| bleating about proprietary software going out (literally) and doing something
| yourself. It is always so easy to ask why someone doesn’t do something until
| you realise that you are that someone. Any participation in any free software
| project is demanding of time and often requires a high level of technical and
| programming skills, but the beauty of OSM is that anyone can participate and
| contribute. It’s not everyday that you get the chance to help map the world.
| Mark Twain said “buy land, they’re not making it anymore”. True, but you can
| at least map what’s there.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/openstreemaps_free_softwares_answer_google_and_commercially_restricted_geo_data
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