In my last blog post I counted up the number of pubs provided within CloudMade's (25/11/09) OSM export and compared them to the number of pubs we're told that exist within the UK; in short, about 38% of UK pubs are in OpenStreetMap. I got some really...

OpenStreetMap completeness is something that gets spoken about a lot at OA; we already use OSM data in places, but there are some who feel uneasy about the data when it is provided without any indication of its completeness or quality. I think...

Last weekend I toured the new Ashmolean Museum with my good friend Peter. Unfortunately I was incredibly hungover, which contributed to a sense of confusion I felt throughout; Pete seems to have captured this quite well in his write-up. It would be...

Summer in Kabul AJ Ashton has a really interesting blog post about mashing together Afghani street data, topography and election results for his map Summer in Kabul. AJ writes: This tile set was created entirely from publicly available data. I used...

I've previously written about the import of UN FAO data into OpenStreetMap; now Robert Soden is back, blogging about mapping a Ugandan village. The news made it to ZDNet with the excellent conclusion: Now imagine if some proprietary software company...