Notices by OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap@en.osm.town)

Exciting news about OpenStreetMap and the Sovereign Tech Agency

https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/114081197242572953

Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in OpenStreetMap

Sovereign Tech Agency (@sovtechfund) has decided to invest €384k over two years to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OpenStreetMap’s core software.

read more: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/12/20/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-in-openstreetmap/
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #Funding

Meta Contributes to €178K to OpenStreetMap

Meta has made a major contribution of €178,710 to support the OpenStreetMap community and core infrastructure. This critical funding is directed to OSM operations and infrastructure, and helping to bring the OSM community together around the world.

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/12/19/meta-contributes-to-178k-eur-to-openstreetmap/
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gischat #Meta #funding

OpenStreetMap.org is up and running again! Happy Mapping! 🗺 🔎 ❤ 🚀

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/openstreetmap-org-currently-offline-operations-team-are-working-to-restore-15-december-2024-updated/122930
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gischat #map #maps #mapping

The OpenStreetMap.org website is currently unavailable due to network outage. 😔

Our Ops team is on it, and are trying to fix:
https://en.osm.town/@osm_tech/113654874274344902

The https://OpenStreetMap.org servers have migrated to Debian. Here @osm_tech team member @Firefishy talks to the Debian team about why, when and how.

https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/openstreetmap-on-debian.html
#OpenStreetMap #Linux #Debian #OSM

OpenStreetMap is the premier source of open geo data, allowing you to take control of your maps. Rather than relying on a handful of tech corporations based in USA, you can host your own maps.

Why not switch away from the handful of US tech companies, to your own maps today? 🙂
#OpenStreetMap

State of the Map 2025, the annual global #OpenStreetMap conference is looking for a logo! Are you artistic? Want to help the premier open geo data project? Submit a logo today! 😁

Read more
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2025/Call_for_Logos

#gischat#OSM #map
#sotm #sotm25 @sotm

OpenStreetMap is a map that everyone can edit and improve, and that's how we've created the best map of the world. 😍 🗺 💪 🥇

Alas, some people just want to vandalise things 😭. If you've seen weird things on the map (e.g. lots of crossing white lines), that could be vandalism. Here's what to do if you see this:

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/have-you-spotted-vandalism-on-openstreetmap-org/114684

with thanks to @SomeoneElse.

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #OSMVandalism #Vandalism

Looking to get in touch with other #LGBTQ+ #OpenStreetMap people?

Have you heard of MapBeks <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapBeks> or RainbOSM <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RainbOSM> @rainbosm?

Happy Pride 🏳️🌈 and Happy Mapping 🗺!

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2024

OSM data powers new and ongoing research all over the world. For example, The United States Census Bureau has developed a socioeconomic profile of the commuters affected by the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, in Baltimore, based on OSM data and OSRM.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2024/05/key-bridge-commuters.html

Four #OpenStreetMap projects are taking part in Google's Summer of Code this year. 🙂

Read more on:
OSM Wiki: 📝 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2024/Accepted_projects
OSM Forum 💬 https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/four-projects-accepted-for-google-summer-of-code-2024/112588
#GSoC #GoogleSummerOfCode #SummerOfCode #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. 🎉🥳🎊🎁

#SwitchToOpenStreetMap #OpenStreetMap #OSM

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.

Democratic social media for democratic maps.

#Mapstodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #Open #UserControlled #Democracy
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeMaps #FreeSocialMedia

This year, #OpenStreetMap will turn 20 years old! 💪
How are you going to celebrate it? Are you looking for ideas? Do you have suggestions?
OSMers are starting to brain storm what we could do over on the OSM forum:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-should-we-celebrate-osms-20th-birthday/108542
#OSM #OSM20

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! 👍 🎉

Read more: https://github.com/openstreetmap/tile-attribution/blob/main/README.md
#OpenStreetMap #OSM
¹ to simplify the OSM licence req's.

HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) is joining the OSMF as a silver corporate member.

https://www.hotosm.org/updates/exciting-milestones-reached-between-hot-and-the-openstreetmap-foundation/

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #OSMF #HOT #hotosm

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

The #OpenStreetMap Donation drive is almost at 2,000 donations! 😍

Can you find a way to make it over 2,000?🥺🥺

https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/

Did you know? The OSM.org CDN handles 2.8 billion map tile image requests *per day*! 🤯🤯🗺🗺 That's a lot of maps!

Checkout how @pnorman and the rest of @osm_tech analyse the log files to learn how OSM.org is used.
🌐 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pnorman/diary/402291>
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gischat
(Thanks to Fastly for the CDN 🙏)