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🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY OpenStreetMap! Today is OSM's 20th Brithday! 🎂 🎂

Here's SteveC's desktop at University College London, the original OSM "server" until 2006. You've come a long way in the last 20 years. 😍

https://birthday20.openstreetmap.org/
#20YearsOfOSM #OpenData #OpenSource #OpenStreetMap #OSM

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"OpenStreetMap has grown exponentially or quadratically over the last twenty years depending on the metric you’re interested in...The story isn’t so much about the data and technology, and it never was. It’s the people. " -- Steve Coast, reflecting on 20 years of OpenStreetMap on the OSM blog

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/08/09/openstreetmap-at-20/

#20YearsofOSM
#HappyBirthdayOSM

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The main way to store #LGBTQ+ aspect in #OpenStreetMap is with the `lgbtq` tag. 🏳️‍🌈

`lgbtq=primary` is for locations which cater to an exclusively or predominantly LGBTQ+ audience, either by the managers running it that way, or by overwhelming convention. Subtags (`lgbtq:*=*`) can be used for finer details.

Read more on the OSM Wiki 📝 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lgbtq>

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈 and Happy Mapping! 🗺 🙂

#OSM #LGB #LGBT #LGBTQ #PrideMonth #Pride #PrideMonth2024

📬 You've got mail! Germany's national postal service (Deutsche Post/DHL) has switched to OpenStreetMap for their public facing websites, https://deutschepost.de, https://dhl.de. 🎉🥳🎊🎁

#SwitchToOpenStreetMap #OpenStreetMap #OSM

There are now over 11,000 followers to this M̶a̶s̶t̶o̶d̶o̶n̶ Mapstodon account! 😍

The future of mapping is maps controlled by the people for the people, not big corporations or governments.
The future of social media is social media controlled by the people for the people, not big corporations or governments.

Democratic social media for democratic maps.

#Mapstodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #Open #UserControlled #Democracy
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeMaps #FreeSocialMedia

OpenStreetMap will take a large leap forward with the introduction of vector tiles on openstreetmap.org in 2024.

https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gis #maps #map

OpenStreetMap has been registered as a “Digital Public Good” by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), which is a multi-stakeholder United Nations-endorsed initiative. The designation is an important step in making sure that OSM is recognized for its positive role in global economic development.
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/05/osm-named-as-a-digital-public-good-by-un-affiliated-agency/
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #gis #geo #UN

OpenStreetMap data is free, we only ask that you tell people about us in exchange¹.

Some site use OSM without attribution, *and* hotlink to OSMF tile servers. 😭 Our data is free, but our servers cost time & money. 🖥 It's now even easier for you to report naughty sites like that. 📝 They can (eventually) be blocked from freeloading. We hope this will increase visibility of OSM! 👍 🎉

Read more: https://github.com/openstreetmap/tile-attribution/blob/main/README.md
#OpenStreetMap #OSM
¹ to simplify the OSM licence req's.

Do you use #OpenStreetMap as part of your job? Is your employer an OSMF Corporate Member? Here's how a company can join, and give back to the OSM project!

https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Join_as_a_corporate_member

#OSM #OSMF

Congratulations to @weeklyOSM for publishing their 700 issue!

For years, the team of volunteers has published a weekly summary of what's happening in the OpenStreetMap world in many languages. Congrats!

https://weeklyosm.eu/
#OpenStreetMap

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