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  1. welcome.openstreetmap.org › about-osm-communityWhat is the history of OSM? - OpenStreetMap

    OpenStreetMap was founded in the UK in 2004 by Steve Coast, and taken up by a community of map enthusiasts who wanted a free and open source of data.

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      OpenStreetMap provides map data for thousands of websites,...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap - Wikipedia

    OpenStreetMap was created by Steve Coast in response to the Ordnance Survey, the United Kingdom's national mapping agency, failing to release its data to the public under free licences in 2004.

  3. wiki.openstreetmap.org › wiki › History_of_OpenStreetMapHistory of OpenStreetMap

    • Founding and Early History
    • The Start of Our Current Technology Stack
    • API 0.6, Explosion of User Growth and The License Change
    • New User Interfaces and Continued Growth
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    9th August 2004 – Domain openstreetmap.org registered by Steve Coast. In the following years this date is celebrated as OSM's birthday.
    12th August 2004 – subversion First commit (an “import” from wherever(?)) to the OSM subversionprogram code repository of OpenStreetMap
    16th August 2004 – The OSM website is up (also see more historic versions of the homepage)
    20th August 2004 – Steve Coast presented his mapping idea at EuroFOO (summary by an attendee)

    See full list on wiki.openstreetmap.org

    5th May 2007 – The Rails Port (thus named because the old Ruby-based API code was ported to Ruby on Rails) came online with API v0.4 as did the Potlatcheditor on the openstreetmap.org homepage.
    14th–15th July 2007 – First conference, "State Of The Map 2007", held in Manchester.
    1st August 2007 – 5 million ways
    7th August 2007 – 10,000 registered users

    See full list on wiki.openstreetmap.org

    21st April 2009 – Big switch to API version 0.6 which introduces changesets
    10th–12th July 2009 – "State Of The Map 2009", held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
    25th August 2009 – Potlatch did not only have friends: there was the running gag to "ban Potlatch" (due to bad editing made by some of its – new – users using Potlatch's "live edit" mode) which eve...
    5th January 2010 – 200,000 registered users

    See full list on wiki.openstreetmap.org

    23rd Apr 2013 – Even unregistered users can now leave Noteson the map on www.openstreetmap.org to report problems!
    7th May 2013 – Five months after its first public version, the new editor iDwas embedded into the openstreetmap.org homepage and set to be the new default editor another three months later.
    6th–8th September 2013 – "State Of The Map 2013" held in Birmingham, England.
    2nd December 2013 – The www.openstreetmap.org website is completely redesigned.

    See full list on wiki.openstreetmap.org

    News Archive— archive of news from this wiki's main page
    The event archive (2004-2020)contains all entries of OSM's wiki-based calendar
    Development activityfor major software launches (out-of-date – currently showing 2004–2010)
    Category:Historic artifactscontains pages that refer to historically relevant wiki pages regarding OSM

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  5. wiki.openstreetmap.org › wiki › About_OpenStreetMapAbout OpenStreetMap - OpenStreetMap Wiki

    Sep 4, 2024 · OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the whole world that is being built by volunteers largely from scratch and released with an open-content license. The OpenStreetMap License allows free (or almost free) access to our map images and all of our underlying map data.

  6. opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au › what-open-streetWhat is Open Street Map (OSM)? | TfNSW Open Data Hub and ...

    Oct 31, 2019 · OSM was created by Steve Coast in the UK in 2004 after being inspired by the success of Wikipedia and the rise of proprietary mapping data and tools across the world. Since it began, OSM has grown to over two million registered users who can collect data for the platform.

  7. www.openstreetmap.orgOpenStreetMap

    OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license. Hosting is supported by Fastly, OSMF corporate members, and other partners. OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map.

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  9. www.openstreetmap.org › about › mainOpenStreetMap

    OpenStreetMap provides map data for thousands of websites, mobile apps, and hardware devices