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23 May Launch of http://openstreetmapdata.com where you can download selected shapefiles for coastlines or similar, derived from OSM data. See also blog post by Jochen Topf.
3 May Apple now attributes OSM in iPhoto, see [1] and [2]
19 Apr New version of the map rendering web service Maposmatic available, see also [3]
13 Apr MapFactor Navigator Free is available for Android devices via Google Play.
4 Apr Edits enabled again. License change work ongoing
1 Apr New planet.gpx download of all GPS points
27 Mar Announcement of plans for the license change work
20 Mar Esri donation to OSMF
13 Mar Mar 2012 DB server downtime planned for Tuesday 20th
12 Mar New Australian Geographic Reference Image available for mapping
13 Feb Leaflet 0.3 released
28 Jan Garmin converter tool mkgmap now builds an address search index
27 Jan "Night of the living maps" is global mapping event planned for Feb 7th
17 Jan Report of Google IP address being used to vandalise OSM data
13 Jan Bored of Google Maps? switch2osm
3 Jan State Of The Map 2012 will be in Tokyo [4]
2012 This year we are changing the license!
Please help with Asking users to accept the ODbL and remapping
older news...       OpenStreetMap in the media

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(These are worldwide listings.
Let's get more happening in the U.S.!)

United States mapping news

Jan 6th 2011 - Bidding open to be the host city for State Of The Map U.S. 2012

Dec 3rd 2011 - new TIGER reviewed map provided by ITOWorld

Oct 13th 2011 - Join in with Big baseball project 2011 a project to map baseball fields during the play-offs and the World Series.

Oct 3rd, 2011 - US local chapter elected a board

Oct 3rd, 2011 Geofabrik have their routing analysis worldwide see the US results here. They won't run updates to this on a daily basis here (as they are doing for Europe) unless they get sponsorship funding to do so geofabrik blog

Sep 28th, 2011 At State Of The Map U.S. 2010 in Denver we had 278 people attending from 34 different countries! (osmf blog)

Jun 1st, 2011 Geofabrik now supplies daily #openstreetmap extracts for all US states ( pbf and bz2) http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/north-america/us/

Oct 21st, 2010 Denver will be host to State Of The Map 2011 [5]

Aug 23rd, 2010 öpnvkarte The OpenStreetMap transport map is now available in the U.S.

August 14th/15th, 2010 State Of The Map U.S. 2010 took place in Atlanta, Georgia

July 13th, 2010 - You can now join the United States Local Chapter

March 12th, 2010 - Harry Wood gave a talk 'The State of the States at WhereCamp.EU in London

November, 2009 - Foundation/Local Chapters/United States meetings on Monday nights at 5 PST / 8 EST

September 30th, 2009 - Event reminder - Atlanta, Georgia Mapathon

September ~28th - The Keep Right data checking tool is now available in the U.S.

September 23rd, 2009 - Fixing Up Other Roads

September 3rd, 2009 - Fixing Up Motorways


Feel free to pick news from the blogosphere to list here

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