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| | www.maproomblog.com
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| | [AI summary] The post discusses the 20th anniversary of OpenStreetMap, highlighting its origins as a response to restrictive licensing practices and its evolution into a collaborative mapping project.
| | www.societyworks.org
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| | Microsoft is now retiring its Bing Maps API, which we have used on fixmystreet.com and some other instances for many years, and so we have now switched these to use the OS Maps API - in instances where we do not have PSGA access, we use OS OpenData served from our own tile server for more zoomed in
| | blog.nobugware.com
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| | Maps are fun, self hosted maps are awesome ! Serving world maps was reserved to big companies like Google, thanks to the OpenStreetMap project, we now have access to an open world of data. Generating Tiles MapBox (and others) worked hard to create a vector format bundled in a SQLite file: mbtiles format. It's vector based as opposed to older raster maps containing 256x256 PNG images. The Openmaptiles folks did a great job automating the map generation.
| | popculturereverie.wordpress.com
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| Thank you to all the participants in this (my first) blogathon! I hope to do more of these in the months (and years?) to come. THE SUBMISSIONS (will be updated as they come in): Movie Movie Blog Blog: Freaks (1932) Meredy.com Classic Movies/TV/Celebrities: Susan Peters andThe Sign of the Ram (1948) The Wonderful World of...