{"id":1833522,"date":"2024-08-09T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1833522"},"modified":"2024-08-09T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:27:47","slug":"openstreetmap-is-20-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/openstreetmap-is-20-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStreetMap Is 20 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birthday20.openstreetmap.org\">OpenStreetMap is celebrating its 20th anniversary today<\/a>. It was originally created in response to restrictive Ordnance Survey licensing in the U.K., in a context that seems unrecognizable today. Founder Steve Coast <a href=\"https:\/\/stevecoast.substack.com\/p\/the-days-are-long-but-the-years-are\">writes about the anniversary<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.openstreetmap.org\/2024\/08\/09\/openstreetmap-at-20\/\">mirror link<\/a>). \u201cAllowing volunteers to edit a map in 2004 was simply anathema and bordering on unthinkable. Map data was supposed to be controlled, authorized and carefully managed by a priesthood of managers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenStreetMap is celebrating its 20th anniversary today. It was originally created in response to restrictive Ordnance Survey licensing in the U.K., in a context that seems unrecognizable today. Founder Steve Coast writes about the anniversary&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/openstreetmap-is-20-years-old\/\">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":[386],"class_list":["post-1833522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-web-mapping","tag-openstreetmap","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785131,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/openstreetmap-and-its-women-contributors\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833522,"position":0},"title":"OpenStreetMap and Its Women Contributors","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 March 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"When I started contributing edits to OpenStreetMap in earnest, I couldn't help notice certain idiosyncrasies in its tagging: for example, there was a tag for brothels, which I didn't need to use, but there wasn't one for daycares, which in Quebec there are rather a lot of. That seemed odd.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Web Mapping&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Web Mapping","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/web-mapping\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1789654,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/11\/openstreetmaps-unholy-alliance\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833522,"position":1},"title":"OpenStreetMap&#8217;s &#8216;Unholy Alliance&#8217;","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 November 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"OpenStreetMap, says Joe Morrison, \u201cis now at the center of an unholy alliance of the world\u2019s largest and wealthiest technology companies. The most valuable companies in the world are treating OSM as critical infrastructure for some of the most-used software ever written.\u201d Corporate teams, rather local mappers, are now responsible\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Industry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Industry","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/industry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5311,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/04\/openstreetmap-in-watercolour\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833522,"position":2},"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. I'm starting to hate the default Mapnik tiles. Stamen Design has released three different\u2014vividly different\u2014map styles for OpenStreetmap: watercolour tiles (above), high-contrast black-and-white, and shaded terrain. 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It\u2019s not hard\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Games&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Games","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/games\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1832195,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/06\/openstreetmap-is-dealing-with-some-vandalism\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833522,"position":4},"title":"OpenStreetMap Is Dealing with Some Vandalism","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 June 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"It seems OpenStreetMap has had to deal with a wave of vandalism attacks lately. If you see some nonsense on OSM, this post on their community forum outlines what to do about it (it may have already been taken care of even if it\u2019s still appearing, so check for that;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Map Errors&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Map Errors","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/map-errors\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1790245,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/100-million-edits-to-openstreetmap\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833522,"position":5},"title":"100 Million Edits to OpenStreetMap","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"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 over 1.5 million mappers.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Web Mapping&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Web Mapping","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/web-mapping\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833525,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833522\/revisions\/1833525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}