OpenGeoData

Have you registered? Check out State of the Map. And, there are still many cheap travel options with easyJet and others.

Short mention of OSM about half way through. Check out the article and the podcast itself

Want to get involved in OpenStreetMap but don’t have a GPS or even computer? Now there’s walking papers.

Walking papers lets you print out a OSM map and then write on it. Get home, scan it in and then that map can be drawn on top of using familiar OSM tools. To do this, it prints magic codes on the edge of the map that can be recognised when scanned back in to geolocate the image. If you don’t even have a printer or scanner, they’ll print and scan for you via the postal service. You can meet the author of walking maps, Mike Migurski, and try it out this weekend at the San Francisco Mapping Party.

Check out this heatmap of Tiles@Home data. It shows the size, and thus an approximate complexity, of T@H tiles uploaded to the server. A blank tile of the middle of the sea is much smaller than tiles with complex map data on them. Click for the original image an read more here

Check out the cuteness-o-meter in this picture from ikiya on twitter. Thanks to Sarah for the link.

Check out this video and blog post made by Gary Gale of the Y! Geo Blog interviewing various people at Where 2.0. Of course OSM has a presence

Skip to about half way through to get straight to the OSM bit, but the first 5 minutes are also worth a watch.

Note: Thea, Dirk and Sarah work for CloudMade running events like mapping parties (see here for the blog and events), the video erroneously attributes them to OSM. Of course they contribute a huge amount to OSM, but we have to be clear to avoid flames

Congratulations to the 15 scholarship recipients. We had 35 nominations, from 19 countries, so no easy choice. Thanks to all the nominations .. we hope you can all attend as well.

Will be extremely great to have all these mappers together in Amsterdam!

• Abdel Hassan from Cairo, Egypt
• Anas Maraqa from Palestinian West Bank
• Anatolie Golovco from Moldova
• Arlindo Pereira from Brazil
• Arun Ganesh from Chennai, India
• Asif Rasul from Punjab, Pakistan
• Ciprian Talaba from Romania
• Claudomiro Nascimento Jr from Brazil
• Marloue O. Pidor from the Phillippines
• Freddy Rivera from Colombia
• Giorgi Gujabidze from Tbilisi, Georgia
• H.S. Rai from Punjab, India
• Jorge Luis BATISTA Echevarría from Havana, Cuba
• Julio Costa Zambelli from Vina del Mar, Chile
• Khanh Le Ngoc Quoc from Vietnam
• Nic Roets from Johannesburg, South Africa

In the latest issue of Monday Developments OpenStreetMap Gaza is a featured case study in the article “Community Contribution of Geospatial Data”.

Monday Developments is the monthly magazine of InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian non-governmental organizations .. a growing and important part of the OpenStreetMap community.

Imitation, but sadly without acknowledgment of authorship. Yes, Google invented mapping parties after all [via FakeEd]

In other news, FakeSteveC has been helping on the mapmaker forums.

Hot on the heels of Tim Berners-Lee in a OSM jacket comes the mother of cool – OBAMAPS – whitehouse.gov/change/ is using OSM-based maps! w00t!