Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap (free-map.org.uk) - potential shutdown

[Andy Robinson]

Oh, the heady days of the noughties :-)

Cheers
Andy

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From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] 
Sent: 12 February 2020 12:57
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Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap (free-map.org.uk) - potential shutdown

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> I am proposing shutting down my (very old) England and 
> Wales footpath mapping site Freemap (free-map.org.uk).

Wow, there's a blast from the past!

Freemap was of course one of the very first grassroots mapping sites (2004),
together with my geowiki.com (2003 [1]), Jo and Schuyler's freemap.in
(2005?), and OpenStreetMap itself (2004).

We all converged on OSM sooner or later, but it's a worthwhile historical
detail to remember the early days.

Richard

[1] http://www.systemed.net/blog/legacy/entry071107122332.html



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Re: [Talk-GB] Freemap (free-map.org.uk) - potential shutdown

[Richard Fairhurst]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> I am proposing shutting down my (very old) England and 
> Wales footpath mapping site Freemap (free-map.org.uk).

Wow, there's a blast from the past!

Freemap was of course one of the very first grassroots mapping sites (2004),
together with my geowiki.com (2003 [1]), Jo and Schuyler's freemap.in
(2005?), and OpenStreetMap itself (2004).

We all converged on OSM sooner or later, but it's a worthwhile historical
detail to remember the early days.

Richard

[1] http://www.systemed.net/blog/legacy/entry071107122332.html



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[Talk-GB] Freemap (free-map.org.uk) - potential shutdown

[Nick Whitelegg]

Hi,

As part of rationalising my server space and hosted projects, I am proposing 
shutting down my (very old) England and Wales footpath mapping site Freemap 
(free-map.org.uk).

This is basically because I no longer have the time to maintain and improve it 
and obviously incurs storage space and hosting costs, and I believe it is not 
used so much these days as it has been superseded by other projects.

Before I do so however, please let me know if you still use Freemap - if people 
are still using it, I will keep it up.

The underlying Freemap API, which powers several other projects including 
MapThePaths and Hikar, however, will remain up (albeit on a different server).

Thanks,
Nick



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