Mapping Amsterdam with Open Street Map

I have finally jumped into the whole Open Street Map thing. Currently I am scratching my own Amsterdam itch. Believe it or not, but Amsterdam was virtually non-existent in OSM, so I started the Amsterdam topic.

The data acquisition is fun to do … biking different detours to work and recording every car ride.

To give you an impression of Amsterdam before and after I started (different viewpoints and renderers):

The people behind OSM are acquiring funds in the Netherlands in order to jump start the community here (currently at about 5 users).

Do you feel like helping out on building a free map of the world? In March we’ll do the first Amsterdam mapping party!

update: nl.wikipedia.org entry added :)

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