Planet Open Data News
Wanted - Data Curators to Maintain Key Datasets in High-Quality, Easy-to-Use and Open Form
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Wanted: volunteers to join a team of “Data Curators” maintaining “core” datasets (like GDP or ISO-codes) in high-quality, easy-to-use and ope
Four New Tile Servers
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Have you noticed faster tiles lately? Browsing the map on openstreetmap.org should now be even more responsive. Three new servers, started pr
Mapazonia
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The Latin America OpenStreetMap community was created recently and we decided to organize collective projects on subjects that are common to
Happy Christmas from OpenStreetMap
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Happy Christmas from OpenStreetMap to all of our contributors. This sentence doesn’t actually make sense when I think about it. It̵
Thank You to Our Outgoing CEO
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This is a joint blog post by Open Knowledge CEO Laura James and Open Knowledge Founder and President Rufus Pollock. In September we announced
A new logo for JOSM, the Java OpenStreetMap Editor
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JOSM developers have been running a logo design contest these past few months, and a few days ago they announced a winner. Here’s the b
Schema.org v1.92: Music, Video Games, Sports, Itemlist, breadcrumbs and more!
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We are happy to announce version v1.92 of schema.org. With this update we "soft launch" a substantial collection of improvements that will fo
A round-up of Open Knowledge Community events around the world!
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One of the best opportunities that being part of a community offers is the chance to collaborate and make things happen together – and when w
The Global Open Data Index 2014 is now live!
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The Global Open Data Index 2014 team is thrilled to announce that the Global Open Data Index 2014 is now live! We would not have arrived here
Introducing Open Education Data
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Open education data is a relatively new area of interest with only dispersed pockets of exploration having taken place worldwide. The phrase
New query feature
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A couple of weeks ago we mentioned a brand new feature on the OpenStreetMap.org homepage. On the right hand side we have a new “?”
Competition now open – enter your app and win 5,000 euro
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This is a cross-post by Ivonne Jansen-Dings, originally published on the Apps4Europe blog, see the original here. With 10 Business Lounges ha
Congratulations to the Panton Fellows 2013-2014
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Samuel Moore, Rosie Graves and Peter Kraker are the 2013-2014 Open Knowledge Panton Fellows – tasked with experimenting, exploring and
Pioneering Fellowships Will Help Rewire Africa’s Governments
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Open Knowledge and Code for Africa launch pilot Open Government Fellowship Programme. Apply to become a fellow today. This blog announcement
New Template for CKAN Extensions
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We’ve just merged a new template for CKAN extensions. Whenever you create a new CKAN extension using the paster --plugin=ckan create -t
The Public Domain Review brings out its first book
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Open Knowledge project The Public Domain Review is very proud to announce the launch of it's very first book: a selection of weird and wonder
The heartbeat of budget transparency
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Every two years the International Budget Partnership (IBP) runs a survey, called the Open Budget Survey, to evaluate formal oversight of budg
An unprecedented Public-Commons partnership for the French National Address Database
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This is a guest post, originally published in French on the Open Knowledge Foundation France blog Nowadays, being able to place an address on
State Of The Map – Thanks
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Last week the OpenStreetMap community came together for their annual conference “State Of The Map” We need to say a huge thank yo
Export Datasets from CKAN to Excel
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ckanapi-exporter is a new API script that we’ve developed for exporting dataset metadata from CKAN to Excel-compatible CSV files. Check
Encouraging Commercial Use of Open Data
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I went to Paris this week to give a talk at SemWeb.Pro, an event that, like SemTechBiz in Silicon Valley or SEMANTiCS in Germany/Austria, is
CKAN Extension Registry – Share and Find CKAN Extensions
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We are happy to announce the new CKAN Extensions Registry which lists available CKAN Extensions: extensions.ckan.org/ CKAN Extensions are a w
Introducing Changeset Discussions
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Community and communication are key to the success of OpenStreetMap project, yet discussions about individual edits have always been clumsy a
New Broken Link Checker Plugin for CKAN
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deadoralive is a new broken-link checker service that works with CKAN and other sites, and ckanext-deadoralive is a CKAN plugin that you can