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Adding information about your neighbourhood to OpenStreetMap can be relatively simple when there is local data to use as landmarks. Sometimes you want to explore terra incognita and add data for which there is no local reference for dead reckoning. This tutorial takes a first look at using a GPS receiver to collect a track file for use as a reference when adding information to OpenStreetMap.

Using a GPS receiver to collect data for OpenStreetMap is very helpful for a scenic bicycle trail or relaxing canoe trip.  read more »

Select a GPS

This tutorial for the OpenStreetMap beginner will show you how to make your first contribution to OpenStreetMap in under an hour.  read more »

This tutorial for the OpenStreetMap beginner will lead you through adding your first contribution to OpenStreetMap in under an hour with no special equipment.  read more »

You shouldn't feel lost when you are getting started with OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap is the wiki-style map of everything.

You probably already know this much about OpenStreetMap and now you want to get started by doing something with OpenStreetMap. ... and that's where you are stuck. You had a look at the wiki and found lots of reference material but you still feel lost.

Let's fix that.  read more »

CloudMade laid-off four of their five community ambassadors on 23 July 2009 as confirmed by CloudMade chairman, Juha Christensen on Twitter.

CloudMade reducing 4 of 55 jobs, opening up 5 new in PR and national group relations http://is.gd/1JrZq & http://is.gd/1Js0S  read more »

I'm amazed by the international reach of Open Source events and the Open Source community.

The second (now annual!) Ontario Linux Fest was last weekend and it was a blast. I had a wonderful time mixing and mingling with sponsors, speakers and delegates from as near as Toronto and as far as Ottawa, Montreal, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Fort Collins, San Francisco and Nizhny Novgorod Russia.

Wait. From Russia?

Yes.  read more »

The second, now annual, Ontario Linux Fest is coming up in just a few short days. You are going to love the line up of speakers and exhibitors this year. And you'll have fun meeting folks interested in all of the projects that will be represented at OLF this year. This is a full day (plus two social nights) full of Free Software Goodness.

Register now to save your place.

Toronto. Saturday, 25 October, 2008. Be there!

OpenStreetMap allows people to map their community and show the things that are important to them. It is a collection of tools and data to collect information and create beautiful maps that you can use in creative and unexpected ways. There are more people contributing maps data to OpenStreetMap every week. In September of 2008 there were over 60,000 contributors world wide. Update: there are over 133,000 contributors as of 05 May 2009.

Many of those contributors are cyclists and are active in their communities. Why is that?  read more »