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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2024-08-11 at 14:28

A few very brief recollections from OpenStreetMap's early days, on its 20th anniversary: https://blog.systemed.net/post/18

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2024-08-11 at 15:49

@richardf Thanks for that. Early OSM definitely needed people talking about it at any group that would listen.

So happy 20th to my favourite community project/bumblebee: OSM shouldn't be able to fly, but it does

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Written by Rihards Olups on 2024-08-11 at 17:58

@richardf Oh yay, references for Wikipedia, among other things ;)

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Written by zool on 2024-08-11 at 19:12

@richardf i hugely appreciate the mention! London Free Map was started 2004, my precursor project mudlondon was 2002, our "Mapping Hacks" recipe book was in between.

Seeing the birthday celebrations has been bittersweet! I'm planning to record a #geomob podcast soon to share memories of those times, talk about the parallel work with the Open Knowledge Foundation, the locative media art scene in Limehouse Town Hall, the WSFII conference. Such a time of flourishing and idealism...

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Written by Richard Fairhurst on 2024-08-16 at 11:00

@zool I'd love to listen to that! It was an amazingly creative time.

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Written by zool on 2024-09-01 at 21:57

@richardf there's no way i can bring myself to listen to this and find out how non-linear it was, but the #geomob podcast chat is now here

https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-249

"Mapping Hacks", London Free Map, OKFN, early OSM organising, the Limehouse scene, the WSFII conference...

Then off on some tangents about phone screen fixation, fitness wearables, unplugging the entire internet, it's not all info-dumping about life in 2004 :)

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Written by SK53 on 2024-09-02 at 13:39

@zool @richardf @geomob Didn't seem that tangential to me. Need to get more people interested in more thematic #local #OpenStreetMap based sites. ATM I'm only aware of Bexhill OSM (www.bexhill-osm.org.uk) still being live. Will P took down his two sites "OSM Nottingham" and "Evesham Mapped", because of accumulated #TechDebt (which relates to other things discussed).

As for fitness wearables: it's obvious the protaganists have yet to reach an age where progressive diseases kick in.

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Written by SK53 on 2024-09-02 at 14:16

@zool @geomob An aside: the ultrarich have always dreamed of living forever. A friend once told me of being invited to dinner by a millionaire in the late '70s. It gradually transpired that he hoped that she might be willing to clone him (she was an early pioneer of nuclear transplantation in amoebae).

Aldous Huxley's novel "After Many a Summer" is a suitably cautionary tale, and has a lightness lacking from many of his earler, better-known, novels.

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