{"id":2164,"date":"2007-10-15T12:38:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=417"},"modified":"2007-10-15T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:38:48","slug":"openstreetmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/openstreetmap.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenStreetMap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstreetmap.org\/index.php\/Main_Page\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> is a U.K.-based project that fulfills a great need:\u00a0 an open, collaborative mapping project.\u00a0 Ever find an error in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/\">MapQuest<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Maps<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo Maps<\/a>?\u00a0 Can&#8217;t do much about it, can you?\u00a0 OpenStreetMap will be able to be updated and corrected by their user base, and will be available for free, as in both beer and speech.\u00a0 Think of it in terms of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>, which also illustrates the possibilities for errors and abuse, as well.<\/p>\n<p>They have just jump-started their U.S. mapping effort with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/geo\/www\/tiger\/\">mapping information from the U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>.\u00a0 They have a long way to go, but with some local effort from people across the country, they could be a serious contender for our mapping needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/index.html\">Check out your local area <\/a>to see what they have, and what they still need for their maps.<\/p>\n<p>found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/119493\">Linux.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenStreetMap is a U.K.-based project that fulfills a great need:\u00a0 an open, collaborative mapping project.\u00a0 Ever find an error in MapQuest, Google Maps, or Yahoo Maps?\u00a0 Can&#8217;t do much about it, can you?\u00a0 OpenStreetMap will be able to be updated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/openstreetmap.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2934,2935,2946,2952,2954,2977],"tags":[5350,3036,3628,3009,3025],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-government","category-maps","category-online-services","category-open-access","category-web-design","tag-google","tag-linux","tag-us-census-bureau","tag-united-states","tag-yahoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-yU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}