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Make your first map

rw — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:49:11 -0400

OpenStreetMap provides Free geodata and Free Software tools to use that data. A previous article demonstrates building an OpenStreetMap tile server. This article demonstrates populating it with OpenStreetMap geodata and having your server create a nice picture of a map for you. read more »

Add fonts to your OpenStreetMap server

rw — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:23:45 -0400

OpenStreetMap offers many choices and great power. We know that with great power, there must also come great responsibility.[1] And so it is with fonts. Your choice is likely to be a font from your corporate brand guide or a font mandated by regulation. It would be irresponsible to use a decorative font like Olde English on our maps so for this demo we'll add a suitable font to the system and show how to bring it in to play on the map. read more »

Build your own OpenStreetMap Server

rw — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:34:15 -0400

This article is now archived as http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server-v1. The updated article is based on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Build your own OpenStreetMap server. Build your own what? read more »