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An Animated Year of Edits on OSM
We were inspired by ITO’s “a year of edits on OSM“, but thought that it needed a little extra something – animation! Or view the high-res original. We took each week’s planet dump over the past year...
View Article(Nearly) Live Tiles
Waiting to see your edits is boring. Worse than that, it delays the sense of satisfaction that comes with seeing your contributions and reduces the addictiveness of mapping. At CloudMade, we’ve been...
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A Summary of the Future of Mapping
Over the last few days we’ve launched the CloudMade Developer Programme in front of packed audiences in San Francisco and London. There was a real buzz at both events – a feeling that the tools and...
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New OSM db server “smaug”– First Pics!
Let’s cut to the chase – you all want to see pictures of the new OpenStreetMap core database server, and here it is: It’s got blue LEDs on the front. It must be good. For the techies amongst us, you’ll...
View ArticleA Week of Changesets
One of the new features in OpenStreetMap’s API 0.6 is changesets, which track the bounding box of the edits associated with them. You can check out how useful this feature is at the changeset browser...
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Mapping with the kids
I took my children to a mapping party last weekend in Milton Keynes (UK). My daughters are 4, 6 and 8 years old. We had three GPSs, three scooters, 2 cameras and a pad of paper. My girls had mapped...
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CloudMade releases Style Editor 1.1
Great news for Style Editor users: we’ve launched an updated version of Style Editor (v1.1) that makes discovering, sharing and creating new map styles even easier! Style Editor is CloudMade‘s online...
View ArticleBuilding the Map
Whether you saw it at State of the Map or in the posting below, many of you have seen and commented on Mapzen, CloudMade’s upcoming web-based mapping tool. We’ve gotten a lot of good feedback from...
View ArticleYour Future is Customized – State of the Map Presentation from CloudMade
In July this year, 250 of the leading lights in community mapping and geo application development gathered in Amsterdam for the annual OpenStreetMap Foundation conference The State of the Map. Video...
View ArticleHow Python is Used at CloudMade
This is a repost from my personal blog. I’m starting a series on explaining how and why CloudMade uses Python. The following one explains why we ditched OSM’s stack in favour of in-house solution....
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