http://blog.cloudmade.com The CloudMade Blog Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:55:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are a lot of mapping APIs out there giving developers a lot of choice. Some are simple and lightweight, like our Web Maps Lite and some are incredibly fully featured, like the awesome OpenLayers. The image below is a screenshot from John McKerrell's maps page, which uses ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/08/05/developer-watch-cloudmade-maps-in-your-api/ Our first developers' evening will be held at 18.30pm on the the 31st July at our Menlo Park offices. Anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area who has an interest in location aware applications, mapping, GPS and free data is invited to attend the event, which is guaranteed to ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/07/24/san-francisco-bay-area-developers-evening/ We've been in Limerick, Ireland for The State of The Map, the OpenStreetMap conference where we took the opportunity to announce the release of a complete mapping dataset of the Isle of Man to OpenStreetMap. The dataset was collected by CloudMade in late 2007 using all of the tools and processes ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/07/15/cloudmade-release-isle-of-man-dataset-to-openstreetmap/ Its always great to hear about our maps being used in the wild. Advanced Flash Components are a Colorado based software house who specialise in Flash/Flex components. Today they added support for CloudMade's Mobile Maps API to their UMap library: Click on the image to read more AFC have ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/07/08/developer-watch-cloudmade-mobile-maps-available-via-umap-flashflex-component/ We've just launched a new area of our site - downloads.cloudmade.com - which hosts various maps for most countries of the world including OpenStreetMap XML, Osmosis country boundaries and Garmin GPS maps, all available for free download. We're particularly excited about the Garmin GPS maps, which have been specially ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/06/26/garmin-openstreetmap-gps-map-downloads/ Last week we took the covers off our new CloudMade website - if you haven't had a look already, head over to CloudMade.com and see for yourself. We also released two new APIs as pre-Alpha services: theWeb Maps API and the Mobile Maps API. Right now these services ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/06/04/product-blog-two-new-pre-alpha-apis-from-cloudmade/ Its been busy times here at CloudMade. Since I last posted two months ago we've been hiring, finding new offices and of course we've all found time to go mapping. Here's a quick update. New Offices We're leaving the leafy Putney suburbs in search of bigger offices. We move ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/05/27/update-from-cloudmade/ Tired of waiting for Google Summer of Code? Join Cloud Made's year of mapping. We want to make OpenStreetMap better and we want you to be involved UPDATE - this is worldwide, you don't have to be from the UK. From now on anyone can apply to Cloud Made ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/03/17/openstreetmap-grants/ We're super excited to welcome Sunstone Capital as our first round €2.4 million investors in to Cloud Made. Sunstone join Nikolaj Nyholm and Morton Lund as private seed investors: CloudMade, a key pioneer in the emerging collaborative mapping space, announced today that the company has secured a €2.4 million first round of financing ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/03/17/were-funded/ We’re looking for developers to join our expanding, London based development team at both Senior and Mid levels. You'll be working in a team of 5-10 developers on a range of exciting projects. CloudMade are a London-based startup, specialising in OpenStreetMap services. We have some great new projects coming up ... http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/03/03/were-hiring/