http://community.cloudmade.com/blog CloudMade Community Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:55:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi All Here's a newly revised German version of the Fast Facts. If anyone would like the InDesign file, please email me - paul@cloudmade.com. Paul http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/11/28/new-german-fast-facts-now-available/ Some suggestion on how to organize a Mapping Party. You may have recently heard about the Atlanta Mapathon that OpenStreetMap members in Georgia threw on October 16-18 on the BBC Online, AJC or Fox 5 News. This event brought people from all over the city together for a giant weekend mapping ... http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/10/29/heard-about-the-atlanta-mapathon-and-want-to-set-up-your-own-%e2%80%93-here%e2%80%99s-how/ Last month we set a challenge: Fix duplicate nodes appearing in the most "important" levels of the highway infrastructure. At that time there were 7,414 errors. Today, there are 1,462 - a drop of almost 6,000 or 80% - well done everyone! To really feel how dramatic this reduction in errors ... http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/10/26/highways-getting-fixed/ Last weekend the city of Atlanta, Georgia was taken over by a group of more than 150 OpenStreetMap members who gathered to kick-off the citywide effort to make Atlanta the most digitally mapped city in America. Despite the unseasonably cold weather, the Atlanta Mapathon was fun and productive. Prior to the ... http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/10/21/the-atlanta-mapathon-taking-it-to-the-streets/ Hi I recently joined CloudMade as a communications professional and one of the first things I did was to create a two page Fast Facts document that provides a snapshot of OpenStreetMap. I'd like to share this with you to use as you see fit. It's been specifically designed for press in ... http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/10/02/openstreetmap-fast-facts/ As OpenStreetMap (OSM) continues to gain members from all corners of the world, the CloudMade Community Team is working to strengthen and expand the community of map contributors and groups who support OSM in the US. One of the projects I am especially excited about is the Atlanta Digital Mapping ... http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/10/01/the-atlanta-digital-mapping-initiative-%e2%80%93-putting-atlanta-on-the-map/ At the beginning of the month we started running a map to help people find the duplicate nodes on motorways which needed fixing. Initially there were quite a few in North America, but this has dropped steadily until, on 2009-09-18, they were all cleared up. There's still a few around, ... http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/09/23/fixing-up-other-roads/ OpenStreetMap is not only built by a global community of volunteers, it's also maintained by those volunteers. But how does a potential maintainer find bits of the map which are broken? As an experiment, we've been running a process to find duplicate nodes on motorways around the world. These duplicate ... http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/09/03/fixing-up-motorways/ We're not really sure how it started, but archaeological evidence suggests that it was approximately five years ago when Steve Coast created the OpenStreetMap project, kicking off the wonderful worldwide mapping collaboration we all know and love. To celebrate this approximate anniversary, it was the OpenStreetMap 5th Anniversary party on ... http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/08/25/5th-anniversary-party/ Have you ever wanted to know who is editing right now on OpenStreetMap? Now you can! Check out this cool map of the world that shows where anyone is editing in real time anywhere on the planet! http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/2009/07/14/live-openstreetmap/