Press

When I started openmtbmap.org my primary goal was to get more Mountainbikers to participate in Openstreetmap. From virtually zero MTB Routes and ways classified with mtb:scale, Openmtbmap.org has changed this tremendously. Currently around 2000 people ( ~15.000 Pageviews) visit openmtbmap.org each day. Every day up to 3000 maps are downloaded causing ~ 500GB of traffic.

There are many more blogs/press articles about openmtbmap.org – if you would like to see your post/article referenced here, drop a comment, this is just a selection (last full update June 2010)

Most Popular Forum Threads about Openmtbmap.org:

  German:

http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/showthread.php?t=391353

http://www.naviboard.de/vb/showthread.php?t=36008

http://garminedge.wordpress.com/einfuhrung/kartenmaterial/exkurs-openmtbmap/
 

  Italian:

http://mtb-forum.it/community/forum/showthread.php?t=128803
 

 

Online Journals / Newssites mentioning Openmtbmap.org

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/gps-hackers/ – This article appared on the frontpage of Wired.com, and nearly brought my server down (over 25.000 visits during 24hrs, even though my server crashed a few times) – I don't know where it was first published, but it subsequently got posted on many many other sites all over the world (more than 100). It even got translated into quite a few languages – here's for example a German translation: http://derstandard.at/1250691441783/OpenStreetMap-Die-Wikipedia-fuer-GPS-Daten?sap=2&_pid=13948206
 

  German:

This article (the first post) was published about 12 hours after opening up the website openmtbmap.org on the front page of mtb-news.de: http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/showthread.php?t=391414

http://www.stern.de/digital/telefon/topografische-karten-wandertouren-mit-dem-handy-703489.html – This article subsequently got printed in about 20 more news journals (amongst Süddeutsche Zeitung, Netzzeitung.de, Rhein-Zeitung, Sol.de, Südkurier,

Soulbikers use Openmtbmap on their Oregon.

 

 

Traditional Press mentioning Openmtbmap.org

Both the German "Bike" as well as "Mountainbike" magazine published articles about Openmtbmap.org.
 

 

Blog Posts about Openmtbmap:

http://buglix.org/2009/08/25/garmin-edge-705-and-open-street-map/

http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/2009/07/italy-maps-gps-poi/

  Italian

http://niubii.blogspot.com/search/label/mapping%20tour – On of the most commited openmtbmap users

  German:

The very first blog post about openmtbmap.org: http://blog.spoony.ch/2009/04/07/mountainbiken-mit-gps-und-openstreetmap-teil-i/

http://www.perl-online.com/blog/archives/14528

http://www.obadoba.de/engelchronik/comments/beeindruckt/

http://gmt-biker.de/2009/09/10/gardasee-2009/

http://alleswasbewegt.de/2009/11/21/openmtbmap-freie-wander-mountainbike-fahrradkarten/

http://www.momomuck.de/reise/?p=203

http://www.rik-mueller.de/mountainbike/2009/04/openmtbmap/

http://planet-punk.de/2009/03/22/radfahren-in-aachen-und-umgebung/

http://rene-xcracer.blogspot.com/2009/11/openmtbmap-fur-garmin-so-gehts.html

http://blog.max-fun.de/2009/05/24/erfolgreiches-wochenende/

French:

http://blog.roozeec.fr/2010/11/18/rajouter-des-cartes-routables-openstreetmap-sur-gps-garmin-avec-qlandkartegt/

other languages:

http://www.microformats.dk/2011/04/06/gratis-mtb-og-vandrekort-til-garmin-gps/

http://www.enbicipormadrid.es/2010/03/mapas-gratis-para-tu-gps-garmin.html

and many more blog posts….