OpenStreetMap (OSM)
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Navigation, It’s Not Just For Cars: Mapbox And Scoot Optimize The Nav System For 2 Wheels
Navigation may have found its initial home in the car dashboard, but there are many different modes of transportation we use from feet to bikes to skis that can all benefit from some turn-by-turn directions. San Francisco’s scooter-sharing startup Scoot is a good case in point.
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Online Volunteers Map Philippines After Typhoon Haiyan
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team coordinates mapping effort after enormous storm devastated country Read More »
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Open-Source Benefits To Govt Outweigh Misconceptions, Report Says
Security challenges, lack of education, interoperability concerns and licensing and legal concerns are some of the top obstacles government officials see for adopting open-source software in agencies, according to a survey in a recent report from GovLoop. Read More »
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Open-Source Mapping The World's Most Vulnerable Regions Will Save Lives
Urgent humanitarian aid missions are slowed when cities are largely unmapped. Missing Maps aims to change that with the help of volunteer cartographers and local residents. Read More »
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OpenStreetMap Response To Typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda
The Typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda in Philippines is the worst ever registered. The Humanitarian OpenSteetMap Team (HOT) has activated to provide geographic base data in areas affected by typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan in the Philippines. Currently we are supporting the active OpenStreetMap Philippines community. [...] Read More »
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OpenStreetMap’s Redesign Goes Live! More Focused, More Inviting, More Map
A redesign of OpenStreetMap.org has just gone live. Since we kicked off with State of the Map US in San Francisco, we have been working closely with the OpenStreetMap community to implement this new design that is more focused — a better experience for newcomers and creates more space for the map. Read More »
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Rwanda: E-Umuganda - Development Through Voluntary Skilled Work
AFTER MONTHLY community work, umuganda, Rwandan youth that make up different ICT communities gather at kLab in Telecom House for an event they have named e-umuganda. It was originally meant to map all public and private places in the City of Kigali on the OpenStreetMap, but this has since developed into something much bigger than that...
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ThinkGeo Updates World Map Kit Online and World Map Kit SDK
ThinkGeo has released updated version of Map Suite World Map Kit. This is a major update that includes world-wide street level coverage and improved map rendering...
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Tracking An Ebola Outbreak In A City Without Maps
If you Google Map Guéckédou, the Guinean city smack dab in the Ebola virus's deadly domain right now, you'd see just an abstract blotch of beige and yellow. Zoom all the way in on satellite view, and you can barely make out the outlines of buildings.
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Using OpenStreetMap To Respond To Disasters Before They Happen
Kate Chapman, executive director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, gave Tuesday's keynote at Linux.conf.au about preparing and responding for disasters with the help of communities. Read More »
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Weekly: Typhoon Yolanda Relief, Hackathons And Software Releases
This week, we recognise the efforts of the team at Volontaires internationaux en soutien aux opérations virtuelles (VISOV), who are crowdsourcing images of destruction and aid deployment in the wake of the Typhoon Yolanda in Philippines. This deployment, much like all other efforts being ran out there, will go a long way in helping to alleviate the suffering of the Filipino people. Read More »
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