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by yellowbkpk 6015 days ago
Trying to find ways to attract more US-based mappers to OpenStreetMap.

First stop: support my buddy Lars' map rendering to get this beautiful map http://toposm.com/ma/ to cover the entire United States. Anyone out there have some spare CPU cycles and/or memory to donate for the next couple weeks?
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cullenking 6013 days ago
I am a co-founder of http://ridewithgps.com and we have been intending on integrating OSM support into our route planner, as well as figure out a way to funnel mapped routes back through to you all. We were thinking a cool way to vette cycle routes would be a heat map of sorts.

We have some more business related priorities (payed accounts and the like), but this is up there; I'd love to see those map tiles cover the entire US.

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ganley 6014 days ago
Wow, that's gorgeous. Something I'd been thinking of working on was a tool to produce really beautiful printed maps from the OSM data. The existing OSM renderers are screen-oriented and fairly utilitarian, and their output isn't nearly as pretty (or as high-resolution) as a good paper map. But the data is all there; it's just a matter of rendering it better. This is definitely in the direction that I was thinking of.
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