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The OpenStreetMap website itself is an online map, geodata search engine and editor. 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.
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.
- 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
- See Also
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 OpenStreetMap16th 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)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 ways7th August 2007 – 10,000 registered users21st April 2009 – Big switch to API version 0.6 which introduces changesets10th–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 users23rd 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.The event archive (2004-2020)contains all entries of OSM's wiki-based calendarSep 4, 2024 · Steve Coast founded OpenStreetMap in 2004. On August 22nd 2006, the OpenStreetMap Foundation was established to encourage the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data and provide geospatial data for anybody to use and share.
provides map data for thousands of websites, mobile apps, and hardware devices. OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
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.
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Sep 6, 2024 · Welcome to OpenStreetMap, the project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. We started it because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways.
