Private companies and revenue-hungry government agencies have always had a stranglehold on the world’s best maps, until the arrival of Open Street Map, a volunteer-driven effort akin to Wikipedia for mapping and cartography. OSM offers endless customisation possibilities, is entirely open source and in many parts of the world is rivaling the best online and paper maps. OSM’er Andy Allan explains how he’s been adding information relevant to cyclists and explains how anyone can contribute to the project. George Coulouris and Jean Dollimore give a guided tour of Camden Cyclists’ collaborative online cycle route planning tool.
Date for the diary:
Bicycology evening of bike films, vegan pancakes and discussion of plans for a cooperative bike workshop and ‘radical bike group’.
Wednesday 6 February, 7.30pm
L.A.R.C (London Action Resource Centre)
62 Fieldgate Street, London E1
MP3 | Other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis)
The Bike Show from Resonance FM: Reclaim the Street(maps) [31:29m]: 
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1 Shine » The Bike Show :: GravityStorm // Feb 5, 2008 at 11:40 am
[…] Last night’s episode of “The Bike Show“, aired on London’s Resonance FM, featured an extended interview with your’s truly on the subject of OpenStreetMap and my OSM cycle map. The interview was recorded out and about around London a couple of weeks ago - and if you want to listen to it, it’s available on their website - “Reclaim the Street(maps)”. […]
2 The Blasphemous Bicycler » Blog Archive » The Bike Show // Feb 6, 2008 at 2:18 pm
[…] 104.4FM has a radio show about bikes called “The Bike Show.” Monday, they released a podcast of an interview with Andy Allen, the Grand Poobah of the OSM Cycle […]
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