OpenStreetMap Hits One Million Registered Users

An anonymous reader writes "OSM passed the one million registered users mark! Sure, similar to Wikipedia, the number of active contributors is a factor of 5 lower (something like ~200k) but the growth of data is impressive. So why not have a look at your neighborhood and assist on mapping? Nothing big, just visit OSM bugs and add for example your favorite place and a house number."

I have a bug to report...

[damn_registrars]

... the link to "OSMBugs" in the summary doesn't work.

Re:I have a bug to report...

[MyFirstNameIsPaul]

I have been able to correct the issue locally by going to osmbugs.org [osmbugs.org].

OSM allows to hide your contributions behind DRM

[Anonymous Coward]

As of 2010 they changed license to be corporation-friendly (hence Apple started using them). The down side is that they now allow corporations to hide your work behind DRM, and they had to purge contributions from users who disagreed with this.

Re:Devil in the Details

[Anonymous Coward]

Err what? For road name you click on the existing street in the editor and change the "name" field. Hit the "Save" button, wait 2 minutes and refresh the map. You are correct that dentist/doctor isn't in the presets (although veterinarian is...) but that doesn't mean you can't map it. See the OSM wiki [openstreetmap.org] for more "tags" that you can use to label things.

Re:Devil in the Details

[yellowbkpk]

What gives you the impression you can't mark dentist/doctors offices or fix street names? For example, click on the street whose name you want to fix. On the left column you should see a list of attributes for that street. You can change it there and click Save. Done!

Re:Wikimapia

[yellowbkpk]

Wikimapia does not distribute their data with an open license. Even if they did, every single drop of their data was derived from Google Maps satellite and map data, breaking the Google terms of use. I imagine if you tried to do anything serious with Wikimapia data you would get slapped by Google.