Diary Entry Background on the OpenStreetMap Foundation's GeOsm trademark agreement

In December 2020 the Licensing Working Group (LWG) received an inquiry regarding GeOsm and its trademark status. As GeOsm contains “OSM” which is a...

Diary Entry From JOSM search & replace to processing Openstreetmap with your favorite text edition tools

There you are, in some Openstreemap editor, correcting the same typo for the 16th time, cursing contributors who neglect correct capitalization and...

Diary Entry The White House uses OpenStreetMap

This has been popping up in my social networks since yesterday and I have not seen it echoed here... So there - the White House uses OpenStreetMap ...

Diary Entry New article about OSM in South Africa

Yes - This time I thoroughly checked that it has not yet been posted here... "The ambitious volunteer-based OpenStreetMap has now mapped more than...