Russia’s OSM Enters Mainstream
This week marked a significant milestone for the Russia’s OSM – the project made its first appearance in the Russian mainstream media! OSM community members Maxim Dubinin (Максим Дубинин) and Vladimir Elistratov (Владимир Елистратов) made an appearance on a popular tech radio show Tochka.
The interview lasted over 40 minutes and revealed a ton of interesting information. Here are few points:
- The best mapped OSM Russian city is Rybinsk
- Russia’s OSM Community has between 4-5 thousand contributors.
- Scanex, Rambler contributed data and hardware to the project.
- Interesting discussion about the legality of mapping military installations.
The full transcript is available here. Something tells me that 2011 will be the year of OpenStreetMap – hope to see Russian OSM members at SOTM.