{"id":1790245,"date":"2021-02-25T19:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790245"},"modified":"2021-02-25T19:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:30:36","slug":"100-million-edits-to-openstreetmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/100-million-edits-to-openstreetmap\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Million Edits to OpenStreetMap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 100 millionth edit to OpenStreetMap was uploaded today, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.openstreetmap.org\/2021\/02\/25\/100-million-edits-to-openstreetmap\/\">the OpenStreetMap Blog reports<\/a>. \u201cThis milestone represents the collective contribution of nearly 1 billion features globally in the past 16+ years, by a diverse community of over 1.5 million mappers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 100 millionth edit to OpenStreetMap was uploaded today, the OpenStreetMap Blog reports. \u201cThis milestone represents the collective contribution of nearly 1 billion features globally in the past 16+ years, by a diverse community of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/100-million-edits-to-openstreetmap\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[261,386],"class_list":["post-1790245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-web-mapping","tag-crowdsourcing","tag-openstreetmap","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5311,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/04\/openstreetmap-in-watercolour\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790245,"position":0},"title":"OpenStreetMap in Watercolour","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 April 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"The ability to use other map styles with OpenStreetMap data is, I think, underexploited. 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