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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html lang="en-gb"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>OpenGuides - Home</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/openguides.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" href="css/dropdown.css">  </head> <body> <div id="header_and_menu"> <div id="header"> <a href="."><img src="img/logo.png" width="360" height="120" alt="OpenGuides: the guides made by you"></a> </div> <div id="centeringdivforie"> <div class="menu">  <ul> <li> <a class="hide" href=".">Home</a>  </li> <li> <a class="hide" href="information">Project</a>  <ul> <li><a href="news.html">News Archive</a></li> <li><a href="lists.html">MailingLists</a></li> <li><a href="irc.html">IRC Channel</a></li> <li><a href="branding.html">Branding Guidelines</a></li> </ul>  </li> <li><a class="hide" href="software.html">Software</a>  <ul> <li><a href="release_notes.html">Release Notes</a></li> <li><a href="search_help.html">Search Help</a></li> <li><a href="text_formatting.html">Text Formatting Help</a></li> </ul>  </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div>   <div id="sidebar">  <div id="cities_list"> <div id="cities_list_header">Take me there...</div> <div class="cities_list_region_header">UK</div> <ul class="cities_list_region"> <li><a href="http://cambridge.openguides.org/">Cambridge</a></li> <li><a href="http://croydon.randomness.org.uk/">Croydon</a></li> <li><a href="http://london.randomness.org.uk/">Randomness (London)</a></li> <li><a href="http://oxford.openguides.org/">Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/openguides/vegan-oxford.cgi">Vegan Oxford</a></li> </ul> </div>  <div id="news"> <h3 class="news_title">Latest project news</h3>  <div class="news_date"> June 19, 2016 </div> <p>After three years of failing to update this website, we鈥檝e finally moved it to GitHub Pages to make it easier to keep current.</p> <p>Eleven versions of OpenGuides have been released since our last news report here. Changes include:</p> <ul> <li>template and CSS changes to facilitate mobile-friendly (responsive) guides</li> <li>improved JSON output</li> <li>added configuration for Vagrant, Travis, and Coveralls</li> <li>added a new search backend based on Lucy</li> <li>added the ability to create custom macros and override existing ones</li> </ul>  <strong><a href="news.html">More news...</a></strong> </div> <div id="mapping_hacks"> <p> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596007035/downlode-20/"> <img src="img/mapping_hacks.gif" width="127" height="190" alt="Mapping Hacks" border="0"> </a> </p> We feature in the <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/">O'Reilly and Associates</a> book <em>Mapping Hacks</em>.<br> You can <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060815000000/http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mappinghks/chapter/hack97.pdf">read the OpenGuides chapter for free</a>! (<acronym title="Portable Document Format">PDF</acronym>, 695K) </div> </div>  <div style="text-align: center"> <div id="main_text"> <h1>What it's about.</h1> <p> <strong>OpenGuides™</strong> is a network of free, community-maintained <a href="http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki">wiki</a> guidebooks to places around the world. Anyone is free to contribute, whether it's by writing new articles or editing the articles that we already have. Read more at the <a href="information">project</a> page. </p> <h2>Software that works.</h2> <p> We built our own software engine to do exactly what we wanted to do. You can read all about it in the <a href="software">software</a> section of this site. And it's free and open, so you can use and extend it yourself. </p> <p> Here comes the science bit: our technical policy is to provide the maximum possible amount of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata">metadata</a> about the stuff in our guides in <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/"><acronym title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</acronym></a>, in order to allow it to be easily integrated into other systems as part of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. What that means to you and me is that the information our users provide can be shared and re-used automatically between other sites and technologies. </p> <h2>Join us.</h2> <p> The OpenGuides network needs you. We're always looking for more places to add to our collection of guides. If your town, city, district or even region isn't represented here, you can <a href="software">set up a guide</a> yourself and join us. </p> <p> Contact us by <a href="mailto:openguides-dev@lists.openguides.org">mailing the developers</a>, joining the <a href="lists">mailing list</a> or talking to us on <acronym title="Internet Relay Chat"><a href="irc">IRC</a></acronym>. </p> </div> </div>  <div id="footer"> <div id="freeourdata"> <a href="http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/" title="Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them."> <img id="freeimg" src="img/freeourdata.gif" alt="Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them. http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/"></a> </div> <div id="freethepostcode"> <a href="http://www.freethepostcode.org/">FREE THE POSTCODE!</a> </div> </div> <div id="trademarks"> <em>OpenGuides</em>, <em>[The] Open Guide to...</em> and <em>the guides made by you</em> are trademarks of The OpenGuides Project, copyright ©2002-2009. 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