Staffs LUG 14th January 2020
3. Start of OSM
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2004 - Steve Coast
- - common GPS problems
- Create Copyright free maps
- multiple .gpx traces, mapping parties, survey
- Out of copyright Maps
- 2006 – Open Street Map Foundation
- - ".. to promote ....growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data "
- - quickly became worldwide
- -2007 Netherlands (AND (Streetmap)data)
- -2008 USA – Tiger (Census data)
- Humanitarian action
- 2010 - Haiti earthquake - no maps - created in days from aerial photos
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Editors (major)
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- desktop JOSM (Germany 2006)
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- online – Potlatch (UK 2007) Potlatch 2 - 2010 (2013 iD)
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