March 19, 2012 at 21:43OpenStreetMap News No. 15: + 90% on osm.org, the best routing service, Wikipedia objects on the map, Vladivostok transport
- To 22.5 thousand readers of the OpenStreetMap blog on Habrahabr (thank you all!) Blogs.openstreetmap.org readers are joining! Hello world!
- The news (which was picked up by LOR , OpenNet , Vesti.ru and Radio-T (at 1:52) ) about Apple using OpenStreetMap data caused March 11 traffic growth (the number of global Internet users who visited the site) by 90% (according to Alexa .com).
- Statistics . In February, 500 people a day were registered in the project, of which 180 contributed. A total of 2100 participants were active every day. After the news from 4sq on March 1, 1600 people registered, of which 700 began to contribute to the project. After the news from Apple on March 8, 1,400 people registered (560 started editing), and on March 9 - 1,800 (780 started editing).
- Routenplannerblog.de investigated 16 map-laying services and won, of course, OSM.
- The Potlatch 2 editor has been translated into Russian. Everything else has long been in Russian.
- Road map with lighting .
- After switching 4sq to OSM, some people thought about asking them to give their data, but actually 4sq data is incorrect .
- Surprisingly, the company Date + uses an OSM-based location map on its website.
- Vladivostok Transport Monitoring - on OSM.
- A new project that shows the object of a Wikipedia article on a map, for example, Moscow Region . I think that soon it will be available immediately on Wikipedia.
- Review layer plans instead of the disabled Osmarender (Tiles @ home).
- New Australia shots available .
- On March 20, some servers will be temporarily disconnected .
- Another project for printing OSM cards on paper .
- Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) in Indonesia .
- Addition to tips for walking cartographers.
- Wiki project “Multilingual maps” .
- Orthodox relief of Baikal . =))
- Humor: do not give him tiles; he will not return them later !