Use the attribution, Luke
Here’s a Star Wars style credit roll of the current public users in the OpenStreetMap planet dump as of 2008-10-15.
The full 37Mb version of the animation is here.
1 comment October 18th, 2008
Icons and stickers
Everyone likes stickers, especially when they’re Moo custom-printed stickers. Click the button below, using Moo’s new XML API, to start creating cool stickerbooks from the OSM and OCM logos. Just for fun, I’ve thrown in my icons too 
Make cool stickers out of icons!
Update: The images on the chooser page look a bit pony, but don’t worry; thats an aliasing artefact. Also, there is currently a problem with transparent PNGs which give the images a black background, but the guys at Moo are working on a fix.
1 comment September 29th, 2008
Icons 0.2
I’ve done a little more work on a consistent, high-zoom icon set and here is release 0.2. Here’s a sample of what the icons look like, although its best to see them on a real map to get the full effect.
I know I’d like to see these on the map, which means they have to be tagged. At the moment we, as a community, aren’t doing very well at tagging things which aren’t rendered (but we’re very good at tagging things that are, e.g: pubs 
). So, treat yourself and tag a nice restaurant today!
Update: I’ve had a special request for the airport icon without the shield, suitable for use at lower zoom levels, so here are the SVG and 
PNG files.
6 comments September 25th, 2008
Expiry
Here is a short script to expire tiles based on osmchange diffs. Michal’s comment got me thinking about if there were an easy way to do it and today’s answer is yes, as long as you don’t mind it not being 100% accurate.
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September 12th, 2008
Party Progress
I’ve been playing with the diff import for osm2pgsql, which now works wonderfully, and trying to set up a (nearly) live tile-server. To test it, I set it running over the weekend after the Euston micro mapping party, grabbing some tiles every hour and turning them into a movie. It covers the period from about 5pm Friday to 10am this morning with one frame per hour.
2 comments September 8th, 2008
Economics
Seriously, everyone should read The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. He’s on the £20 note, so he must be good, right?
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August 29th, 2008
SVG Icons in Mapnik
After a bit of a quick and dirty hack, there is now a version of Mapnik capable of rendering SVG icons directly to the Cairo back-end. The result is a lovely print-quality map, such as this. Sadly, when I try to load it KPDF crashes. Xpdf is OK, but I don’t know about other renderers… I thought they were all based on poppler these days anyway.
I’ll spend some time cleaning up the new additions and hopefully this’ll make its way into Mapnik’s trunk real soon now.
3 comments August 20th, 2008
Scalable Icons
The icons seemed popular, so here are the original SVGs licensed under the CC-BY-SA license. Enjoy!
1 comment August 15th, 2008
Tiny Icons
I’ve been spending some free time trying to design an icon set for OpenStreetMap. There are several design goals for this icon set:
- They need to work, or nearly work, in black and white as well as colour. This is so they could be used in printed low-colour or greyscale maps.
- They should be visually identifiable by POI class, for rapid readability.
- They should all be the same size and “weight”, so that no single icon overwhelms the others.
4 comments August 13th, 2008