Gregory's Server
12/ In August 2004, Steve Coast, then a student at University College London (UCL - site of last week's Geomob London) started ... OpenStreetMap!
The project has come a looooong way since then (see screenshot), and is the basis for OpenCage and many, many other geospatial services around the world.
Last summer for OSM's 19th birthday @freyfogle spoke with @gravitystorm@co.uk on the Geomob podcast about the early days of OSM: https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-193
Well worth a follow: @OSMLondon
13/ ok, this thread of London geographical curiosities could go on for a long while, we will wrap it there for this week.
We have links to many more geothreads about border disputes, exclaves, #geoweirdness of individual territories, reverse geocoding, etc listed on our blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads
If you like đŹđ§ British geographic oddities you may enjoy our threads about
Scotland đ´ó §ó ˘ó łó Łó ´ó ż https://en.osm.town/@opencage/112132917150430966
or
British Overseas Territories đŹđ§ https://en.osm.town/@opencage/110288036094504869
13/ ok, this thread of London geographical curiosities could go on for a long while, we will wrap it there for this week.
We have links to many more geothreads about border disputes, exclaves, #geoweirdness of individual territories, reverse geocoding, etc listed on our blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads