Martijn van ExelJan 31

One of my highlights of yesterday's Mapping USA online conference was osm.kids, a map using #OpenStreetMap that's made for #children! If you're zoomed in, it highlights things like playgrounds, fire stations, schools and ice cream shops.

When you zoom out, you see city and country names and flags so you can learn all about those!

It is so creative and I love it. osm.kids demonstrates so well that you can make maps with OSM that you cannot make with any other map tools out there.

Show threadJorieke
@mvexel very nice! I'd love to learn more about the design process, were there children involved??
Feb 7 at 6:07pmWeb
Show threadMartijn van ExelFeb 7
@jorieke yes! I didn't help with this project, but @dschep made it and I think @watmildon's kid(s) gave feedback!
Show threadJoriekeFeb 7
@mvexel @dschep @watmildon I love that, really a childrens map, not a parents map. The train stations and fire stations gave it kind of away to me, exactly the places we do de-tours for our kid for!
Show threadwatmildonFeb 8
@jorieke @mvexel @dschep yep! You can find a few bits of her commentary transcribed into issues in the repo. Gotta make sure it passes 6 year old Acceptance Testing.