Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/August 9

Today in 2004 OpenStreetMap was launched. This unique project has very successfully taken the idea of freely licensed content further beyond software than its role model Wikipedia. It provides not only a map view, but the foundational geospatial data in an openly usable database with a flexible, extensible structure. It also contains more specialized information and can therefore serve a much broader scope and diverse niches. For example, it contains locations of bat houses and surveillance cameras and works as a central backend for various separate specialized projects and frontends like Wheelmap, which maps accessibility for wheelchair users.