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Here we list articles in major or even local media. To see a trendbar have a look at Google trends. To find a periodical at your local library, refer to WorldCat.
2014
April
- 2014-04-1
(en) Wired - The race to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak Humanitarian OSM Team's work with MSF and others to map residential areas and buildings in parts of West Africa affected by large Ebola virus outbreak.
March
- 2014-03-24
(de) IsarTV - OpenStreetMap - Nerds beim happy meeting Fernsehbeitrag über einen Niederbayerischen OSM Stammtisch (en: TV docu about local OSM meeting)
- 2014-03-20
(en) Mail Online - OpenStreetMap - Nerds beim happy meeting Incidental use of OSM data on tube staions as part of visualisation of London's railway history. Interestingly, OpenStreetMap is mention without further elision, suggesting that the editors expect their readership to have some notions about OSM.
February
- 2014-02-28 (de) Landshuter Zeitung - Vier Männer und die Hausnummern Artikel über OSM in Landshut nach einem Interview mit einem Redakteur der Landshuter Zeitung (en: local newspaper article about OSM in Landshut/Bavaria/Germany)
- 2014-02-28 (en) The Next Web - The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire
- 2014-02-19
(es) eldiario.es - OpenStreetMap: los mejores mapas de Sochi son colaborativos OpenStreetMap provides a comprehensive map of the city of Sochi and the ski slopes. It has been possible thanks to the support of the people, under the model of crowdsourcing.
- 2014-02-19 (en) The Atlantic - In Sochi, Open Source Maps Beat Google's Follow up on The Wired's article comapring Google Maps and OSM mapping for Sochi, makes major use of Zverik's diary entry and therefore provides a better overall picture.
- 2014-02-16 (de) heise online - Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg zeigt Live-Daten Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg shows "live" positions of their public transport vehicles on an OSM-based map.
- 2014-02-16 (de) golem - VBB Livekarte: Busse und Züge auf der Openstreetmap-Karte verfolgen Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg shows "live" positions of their public transport vehicles on an OSM-based map.
- 2014-02-10 (en) Wired - At Sochi Olympics, Crowdsourced OpenStreetMap Trounces Google Maps MapLab short article comparing Google Maps and OSM mapping of Sochi Winter Olympic venues.
- 2014-02 (en) Linux Format #180 - OpenStreetMap Learn how to contribute to this fantastic open source mapping project. (Marco Fioretti)
- 2014-02 (en) Linux Format #180 - What on Earth: OpenStreetMap We look at the open source collaborative map service. (Matt Hanson)
January
- 2014-01-30 (es) Hoja de Router - Ayudar tras la pantalla es posible: lo que aprendimos con el tifón de Filipinas y OpenStreetMap During the disaster, more than 1500 volunteers from around the world coordinated to edit maps with detailed buildings and damage to the affected areas. In collaboration with the Red Cross, the information came in near real time to humanitarian organizations working in the field.
- 2014-01-27 (en) BBC (Radio 4) - Mapping the Void Programme about Crisis Mapping including OpenStreetMap, features quotes from several attendees at London Hack Weekend (Nov 2013): notably ris saying "I won't lie, there is a certain amount of obsessiveness involved". OSM section starts around 9:10.
- 2014-01-22
(pt) Gizmodo Brasil - Por que o mundo precisa do OpenStreetMap re-publication in portuguese of a blog post by Serge Wroclawski
- 2014-01-15 (de) Androidnext - OmniROM: Devs wollen Googles KitKat-Dialer mit OpenStreetMap-Daten nachbauen An attempt to create an open alternative to Google's location-based dialing feature in Android
- 2014-01-14 (de) Spiegel Online - Mitmach-Karte ersetzt Google und Apple OsmAND und OsmAND+ als free and often superior alternatives for Google and Apple Maps
- 2014-01-14 (en) Slashdot - Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap Discussion based on the Guardian article of the same name
- 2014-01-14 (en) The Guardian - Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap re-publication of a blog post by Serge Wroclawski. Japanese Italian Spanish
- 2014-01 (en) Communications of the ACM, Vol. 57, No. 1 - ‘Peace Technologies’ Enable Eyewitness Reporting When Disasters Strike Ushahidi—or "testimony" in Swahili—has played a central role in coordinating responses to crises around the globe.
