![]() ![]() The Internets are still a pretty great place that way. ![]() That is really exciting both because of the opportunities that such a rich and comprehensive dataset provide but also because it proves what is possible. ![]() alone, as Muki Haklay demonstrated, they have produced a free and open dataset whose coverage and fidelity rivals those created by the Ordinance Survey with its government funding and 250-year head start. You would have been forgiven, at the time, for laughing.Īnd yet, in a few short years they are well on their way having nurtured both a community of users and an infrastructure of tools that makes it hard to ever imagine a world without Open Street Maps. To say that OSM started with an audacious plan (to map the entire world by “hand” one neighbourhood and one person at a time) would be an understatement. To thank them for proving the nay-sayers wrong. To thank them for making Flickr, the thing that we care about and work on all day, better. Most of all, though, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank the OSM community. ![]()
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