http://blog.cloudmade.com The CloudMade Blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:01:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We’ve taken on board a lot of feedback and made lots of fixes and updates to Mapzen which we think will make a significant difference to your editing experience. They’re aimed at helping you map more by providing even greater flexibility within Mapzen. Here’s what we’ve added: 1. Easier to work in ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2010/03/10/new-mapzen-updates-make-editing-smoother-and-faster/ There's been a lot of work going on behind the scenes to make Mapzen, CloudMade's family of easy to use OpenStreetMap editing tools, even easier, even more useful and even more fun to use. So what's new? Mapzen POI Collector 1.1 - Now in the App Store Mapzen POI Collector is ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2010/02/20/mapzen-updates-and-sneak-preview-of-the-next-release/ Tonight we were selected by a jury of prominent mobile industry leaders for the most prestigious accolade the mobile industry has to offer, Best Emerging Startup at the Mobile Premier Awards. At a large event this evening at the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Nick Black, Co-founder & Head ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2010/02/15/cloudmade-takes-top-accolade-at-mobile-premier-awards-at-mobile-world-congress/ CloudMade is going to have a busy MWC, we’re meeting with press, developers, partners, investors and if you’re game,  you too! If you’d like to meet us come along to one of the below events or if you’re a developer why not come to one of our Developer Drop-In sessions ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2010/02/09/mwc/ This month we interview Zsombor Szabo from IZE. Zsombor has developed OpenMaps for iPhone using CloudMade tools. The CloudMade Coder caught up with him to find out more. Tell us about your company or application(s) My partner, Csongor Nemes, and I founded IZE in September 2008. We’re both enthusiastic about making the ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2010/02/08/ten-questions-with-zsombor-szabo/ We recently found out that we’ve been selected as a finalist for the Mobile Premier Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars for mobile start-ups at the world’s largest mobile conference, Mobile World Congress. The awards replace the popular Mobile Monday Peer Awards from which companies such as Fring, Plazes and Opera ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2010/01/30/going-for-gold-at-mobile-world-congress/ Its just over a month since we launched Mapzen - the easy to use OpenStreetMap editor. Since then, the intuitive user interface and focus on ease of use has caught the attention of users and the media (see New Scientist, Mac World, ZDNet and our own Press Zone). ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2010/01/04/making-mapzen-even-easier-and-more-fun-to-use/ Here's November's round-up of some of our favourite apps built on CloudMade's platform: OffMaps - Offline maps on your iPhone or iPod touch OffMaps is the smash hit iPhone application that lets you take your maps with you when you're overseas and roaming. It's also the perfect companion for iPod Touch ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/11/30/november-round-up-of-cloudmade-powered-apps/ CloudMade's Mapzen POI Collector - an iPhone application that makes it really easy to add places of interest to OpenStreetMap is now available for free download from the App Store. Click here to find out more. Union Square, San Francisco in Mapzen POI Collector Mapzen POI Collector's fast, easy to use ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/11/26/mapzen-poi-collector-is-now-in-the-app-store/ Short post for those of us using Perl. Perl library, found at http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/perl-api and http://search.cpan.org/~gdm/Geo-Cloudmade-0.2/ has been updated by its author and maintainer Dmytro Gorbunov. Great job, Dmytro! The latest version mirrors the geocoding API V2 by exposing two simple methods for forward and reverse geocoding, along with one method ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/11/24/perl-library-updated/