Diary Entry The non-Mercator manifesto

When OpenStreetMap put a slippy map on its front page on its front page in 2005 it used a Mercator map. This made excellent sense at the time: true...

Diary Entry A modest proposal to deal with AI scrapers

Like much of the web, OSM has been struggling with bots downloading rendered maps, in our case declining to use our planet dumps to get what they w...

Diary Entry Why Nairobi is an excellent venue for State of the Map 2024

After an unfortunate setback in 2020 the 14th in-person State of the Map conference will be held in Africa for the first time, underlining OSM’s st...

Diary Entry OSM isn’t only a map of “nice” countries

One of OpenStreetMap’s greatest strengths is our worldwide platform backed by a worldwide community. As such we need to give our full support to ou...