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The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

15 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 14 comments · first 2014-02-05 · latest 2024-07-30

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  1. https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/...
    comment by shironandon · 2024-07-30 · in Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?
  2. …osm-website and osm-carto at all. The commit logs are very different. openstreetmap-website: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commi... . Numerous commits most days. openstreetmap-carto:…
    comment by Doctor_Fegg · 2024-04-21 · in The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap
  3. …I'm not sure if the developers are full-time, but it's more organized than a volunteer project. https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/ is Ruby on Rails (easy installable with a docker setup). The maintainers have trouble…
    comment by mtmail · 2024-02-09 · in Ask HN: Open-source projects that do something good for the world?
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    This project is not actually run by the OSM Foundation
    story by app4soft · 2022-12-29 · 0 comments
  5. https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website is the website and database. In practice, a lot of the database code is in an accelerator https://github.com/openstreetmap/cgimap . Then there is also a bunch of different code bases…
    comment by maxerickson · 2022-08-16 · in Evolution of the OSM Data Model [pdf]
  6. …to using https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and Organic Maps, or self-hosting them? (the website is https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website and the tile server is https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/ )
    comment by devit · 2022-05-28 · in Show HN: Self-Hosted Maps Stack
  7. If anybody misses Rails and is familiar with OSM organization and culture, then please have a go with https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website . There are many small and big improvements that are waiting to be implemented.
    comment by RicoElectrico · 2021-07-19 · in I Miss Rails
  8. …km. I'm not sure why this stalled out, but it looks like much of the implementation is available: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/...
    comment by maxerickson · 2020-11-20 · in Openstreetmap is having a moment
  9. The website (and all of the mapping tools) are free software. The repo is on their github: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website For mobile I recommend OsmAnd: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand
    comment by cycloptic · 2019-08-29 · in Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)
  10. …exist. Paper: https://hyperloop-rails.github.io/220-HowNotStructure.pdf openstreetmap-website: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/ Claimed Issues submitted: https://github.com/hyperloop-rails/issues-summary
    comment by rmc · 2018-06-29 · in How not to structure database-backed web apps: performance bugs in the wild
  11. I would probably try to make a bookmarklet that registered a couple more engines: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/...
    comment by maxerickson · 2017-08-23 · in New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
  12. The https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website has its flaws but it's the largest open source Rails code base I've seen. Actively maintained.
    comment by mtmail · 2017-08-11 · in Ask HN: Good examples of well written Rails code?
  13. https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/ a rails app basically and a way to import the planet back into the database (not sure how to do this but I think its possible). You wont have any of the history, and no users info…
    comment by chippy · 2016-07-16 · in How to set up an OpenStreetMap server
  14. …a great display map; by making routing more visible, we can make it a great routable map too. [1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/...
    comment by Doctor_Fegg · 2015-02-16 · in Routing on OpenStreetMap.org
  15. …in GMaps, and get a pin in the right location You can already do that. Routing is in the works (see https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issue... ). For now you can use http://map.project-osrm.org/ but having it in plain…
    comment by helicoidal · 2014-02-05 · in It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map