OpenGeoData

OpenGeoData is moving to posterous and so your feeds will move. The blog URL itself will remain static – opengeodata.org.

• RSS feed will move to here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Opengeodata
• Podcast feed is now here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OpengeodataPodcasts

Now that the feeds are with feedburner, they should remain static (they haven’t moved in 4 years so far anyway).

Wordpress has become too much of a PITA to manage for many reasons and posterous is just a pleasure to use. Unfortunately the wordpress to posterous import is not complete yet though. The basic problem is that in lots of posts here on opengeodata, we link to content (like podcasts and pictures) which reside here on opengeodata. Posterous isn’t clever enough yet to grab all of those things and host them… so if I did the import and then changed the domain over, we’d lose all of that media. I have unsuccessfully asked for help fixing this with a script and using the posterous and wordpress APIs or something.

Thus unless anyone wants to help, this entire blog is going to move to old.opengeodata.org and will be mothballed. A new blog will appear at old.opengeodata.org powered by posterous. Anyone with existing accounts who wants to post to the new blog should get in touch, it’s all pretty easy. The good news is that we can at any point in the future import the old content, or at least I hope so anyway.

So long, and thanks for all the maps!

Pretty cool, huh?

You might be interested in the results of a meeting the USGS held on VGI and its implications. Minutes, presentations etc are over here.

The Washington Post attended a recent OpenStreetMap mapping party.

New York Times mentions OSM and Haiti. As does New Scientist.

The Guardian brings everyone up to date on OpenStreetMap’s progress.

Also, interesting article by Nat on opening up data.