Group Cartography

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

Open Street map project - intriguing display of "group cartographic creation" - literally "the Social Group is building the Network". Very cool - brilliant display, impressive collective accomplishment.

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" ..... An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS unit and taking notes, other edits are done remotely using aerial photography or out-of-copyright maps, and some are bulk imports of official data. ...."

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Credits:
This animation was produced by itoworld.com with financial support from ideasintransit.org; it is licensed CC-BY-SA and can also be downloaded from this page when you are logged-in. Various stills are available from flickr.com/groups/itomedia/pool/. The music is 'Open Electro' by Vincent Girès' jamendo.com/en/artist/silence and can be downloaded from archive.org/details/silence-silence.ITO World provide free online support software for OpenStreetMap (itoworld.com/static/osmmapper) and also provide online mapping services to organisations and individuals.