OpenCage 👉🌍🎂 Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap 🎂!
This week the project celebrates 21 years 🥳🍾🎉
Well done everyone, congrats to all involved. #OpenStreetMap
Reason enough for this week's geothread to be a compilation of resources for learning more about OSM
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2/ Let's start at the beginning - Here's a @geomob podcast episode about "The early days of the open data revolution" with @ultrazool Jo Walsh who was there (in London 🇬🇧) at the very start
3/ Likewise you may enjoy this discussion from two years ago (OSM's 19th birthday) when @freyfogle spoke with @gravitystorm about the early days of OpenStreetMap and how far the project has come
4/ But really if interviews about OpenStreetMap are your thing you will want to check out our blog where we have regularly been pubishing interviews with people from all across theglobal community for over 10 years now:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/osminterview
https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/osminterview
5/ #OpenStreetMap is so big now (>5 million edits/day) and the community behind it is truly global 🌎🌍🌏
It is now used in so many different places and ways that it can be hard to keep up with all the things that are happening. We wrote a #geoeducation thread about staying up to date on OpenStreetMap
OpenCage 👉🌍 (@[email protected])
After a week off to enjoy the summer this week's #geoeducation thread again focuses on OpenStreetMap The OpenStreetMap community is massive (and growing) 💪, global 🌍, and very dynamic 🕺💃! The OSM database has millions of edits per day. Lots of things are happening all the time. But ... that can also be a bit overwhelming. How do we stay aware of what's happening? #OpenStreetMap 1/n
6/ Want to get involved? Check out the OpenStreetMap welcome page at https://welcome.openstreetmap.org which provides a great introduction to what #OpenStreetMap and how you can use this incredible resource.
7/ That said, the best way to get started is mapping your local area. A great resource for learning is https://learnosm.org - a beginner's tutorial available in over 20 languages
8/ Our service couldn't exist without OpenStreetMap which is why we are proud to give back to the community by being OpenStreetMap Foundation Corporate members, as well as members of the German 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 local chapters and to regularly sponsor events and do other things to support the community.
See more about our efforts to give back
https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/givingback
9/ The 21st birthday 🎂 is a great chance to reflect on how far we have come.
Thank you and happy mapping everyone!
10/ Ahh sorry, forgot one final toot
Last September we organized a Geomob London event to celebrate #OpenStreetMap's 20th birthday at UCL (where OSM was started)
It was a very fun night with an excellent turn out, a great reminder that the power of OpenStreetMap is the community behind it
Here's the summary thread from that evening https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/113164743858962914
We hope your OSM 21st birthday celebrations are as much fun
Geomob (@[email protected])
Attached: 4 images 1/ Many thanks to everyone who joined us last night for Geomob London. It was a wonderful evening, a fitting celebration of 20 years of #OpenStreetMap Here's our summary thread for those who couldn't make it. #geomobLON