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STM Adopts OpenStreetMap

Simon Mercier | MapGears | June 26, 2013

Mapgears’ team has been involved in the development of the new Web application for the “Société de transport de Montréal” (STM) this winter. The TP1 agency, who built the new STM website and integrated their new branding, turned to Mapgears for the production of an online map entirely based on OpenStreetMap [...]. Read More »

The 2013 OpenStreetMap (OSM) Report - Over 1 Million Contributors!

Glenn Letham | GISuser.com | June 7, 2013

Just in time for the 2013 SOTMUS event taking place June 8-9 in San Fran, The 2013 OpenStreetMap Data Report - some stunning and interactive data visualizations that show how active the OpenStreetMap community is, how fast it continues to grow, and how competitive the open data community is becoming. Read More »

TV Spot About OpenStreetMap

Rene Westerholt | GIScience News Blog | June 23, 2013

Some weeks ago a TV team recorded a short TV spot at our research group (we reported about that earlier). It was subjected to the OpenStreetMap project and some of its possible applications. [...] Read More »

Uchaguzi – Community Next Steps

Heather Leson | Ushahidi | January 21, 2013

The Kenyan 2013 Elections are just over a month away. If this past weekend’s political nominations are any indication, there will be a rise of people’s voices and stories to share. You may be asking: how can I contribute? From researchers to developers to online strategists to translators and sense-makers, we aim to connect and build Uchaguzi together. Read More »

Visualizing The Stunning Growth Of 8 Years Of OpenStreetMap

Emily Badger | The Atlantic Cities | June 10, 2013

The U.S. OpenStreetMap community gathered in San Francisco over the weekend for its annual conference, the State of the Map. The loose citizen-cartography collective has now been incrementally mapping the world since 2004... Read More »

What Can You do with Open Data?

Play a word association game and the word "open" will almost surely be followed by "source." And open source is certainly an important force for preserving user freedoms and access to computing. However, code isn't the only form of openness that's important. Open data has been discussed for at least a decade. At the OSCON conference in 2007, Tim O'Reilly kicked off a bit of a ruckus when he suggested that open data might actually be more important than open code. Open data in this context mostly referred to the ability to export the user-created "Web 2.0" data, which was becoming important at that time. Tim Bray, then at Sun Microsystems, highlighted the issue when he wrote...

When the United Nations Calls, MicroMappers Acts

Open source and crowdsourcing—uttering these words at a meeting of the United Nations before the year 2010 would have made you persona non grata. In fact, the fastest way to discredit yourself at any humanitarian meeting just five years ago was to suggest the use of open source software and crowdsourcing in disaster response. Then, a tragic earthquake occured in Haiti in 2010, and OpenStreetMap and Ushahidi were deployed in the aftermath. Their use demonstrated the potential of free and open source crowdsourcing platforms in humanitarian contexts. Then, Typhoon Ruby in the Philippines occured five years later. What technology was used?...

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Wiki Project Med Foundation Launches Offline Medical Apps in Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Spanish.

Press Release | Wiki Project Med Foundation, Wikimedia Switzerland and Kiwix | August 16, 2016

Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland have launched Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Spanish versions of Medical Wikipedia, a free app that offers offline access to thousands of Wikipedia articles. Each app contains articles related to human anatomy, pharmacology, medicine, and sanitation. It runs on Android devices version 4.0 and up. Once the app is installed, all articles can be accessed without an internet connection...

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Wrapping Up Open Data Day 2013

Beatrice Martini | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog | February 28, 2013

Open Data Day 2013 took place on the 23rd of February – and it was great! From curious citizens to journalists, tech-geeks to scientists, designers to data wranglers, hundreds of people got together to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. Read More »

The 2022 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap unSummit

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
August 18, 2022 (All day) - November 27, 2022 (All day)

The 2022 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Teams unSummit is going to bringing communities, partners, and supporters around open mapping, OpenStreetMap, humanitarian response, and social impact. In our ongoing mission to bring together communities, partners, collaborators, and supporters of humanitarian open mapping, we are trying a fresh approach to the HOT Summit. Instead of hosting a single event, this year we are investing our time and resources in supporting global, regional, and local conferences and community events around the world to bring the spirit of the Summit to thousands of new people. We are calling this the "HOT unSummit," emphasizing the continuity of this new approach with HOT's flagship annual event without claiming a 'higher ground' compared to the events we partner and collaborate with. The HOT unSummit will be a world tour of collaborating events over the course of 2022, and you can watch this page for the latest updates on what's coming up.

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