OpenStreetMap data is free, we only ask that you tell people about us in exchange¹.
Some site use OSM without attribution, and hotlink to OSMF tile servers. 😭 Our data is free, but our servers cost time & money. 🖥 It's now even easier for you to report naughty sites like that. 📝 They can (eventually) be blocked from freeloading. We hope this will increase visibility of OSM! 👍 🎉
📬 You've got mail! Germany's national postal service (Deutsche Post/DHL) has switched to OpenStreetMap for their public facing websites, https://deutschepost.de, https://dhl.de. 🎉🥳🎊🎁
There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org! The Tracestrack Topo map from @tracestrack.
It's a mix of osm-carto and OpenTopoMap. It has many improvements: more tag support (busway, embankment, cuisine, solar plants, aquaculture, pitch, sea, tree etc.), CJK fonts, etc. There is
also better internationalisation: country specific road shields, peaks
using imperial system in the US, hierarchical place rendering in China, etc. #OpenStreetMap#OSM#gischat#maps
An unfortunate reality of our moment is that (1) lots of us feel powerless to help deal with the various disasters floating around us and (2) there are lots of such disasters, often so bad they impact our physical (mapped) world.
There are now over 11,000 followers to this M̶a̶s̶t̶o̶d̶o̶n̶ Mapstodon account! 😍
The future of mapping is maps controlled by the people for the people, not big corporations or governments.
The future of social media is social media controlled by the people for the people, not big corporations or governments.
There's currently a wave of bots trying to vandalize #OpenStreetMap by replacing names (and russian langauge names) with anti-russian slogans. The #OSM DWG has blocked 5,000+ accounts already
Trans people are mappers, and hackers, and cartographers, and have always been a part of the OpenStreetMap community.
The OpenStreetMap project is creating a freely licenced map of the world, based on how things actually are, based on how they act, and appear, not based on what some government says. OSM is trans positive.
One of the best ways to financially support OpenStreetMap is to donate to the OpenStreetMap Foundation! Once off, or recurring, donations are always welcome.
Don't forget to mention the fediverse/mastodon in the donation message. 🙂
📢 Vous avez envie de vous lancer dans l'aventure #OpenStreetMap ?
👉 Sachez que j'ai mis en ligne, en accès libre, un parcours de formation sur #OSM sur le site de l'association française OpenStreetMap.
Ce parcours, d'environ 2h, initialement crée pour les enseignants, est spécifique pour les débutants. Il est composé de 3 modules :
1 - Découvrir
2 - Utiliser
3 - Contribuer
A great reason donate to OSM is to support OSM's site stability engineer. OSM is the greatest volunteer community of all time (!), but the project is too large not to have a paid admin:
It is an #OpenStreetMap based service to find #vegan (and #vegetarian) restaurants, in other words an open alternative to #HappyCow (except for the review functionality).