Tag: openstreetmap
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Onflood
Friday night was sleepless for me. I couldn’t stop thinking about a simple idea I had, riffing off of Color and some of the technology I’d built for OutMap: What if you could hook messages, photos, files and metadata to a particular location in space, and create an ad-hoc messageboard with this information based on […]
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There shouldn’t need to be an OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a project whose aim is to make a free map of the world. It’s extremely impressive: as well as searching the map in a normal way, the data is exportable via XML, PNG, JPEG, SVG and more, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. But it shouldn’t need to exist. In the US, […]