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The Guardian: Meeting the Wikipedia of the Mapping World
Thursday, February 4, 2010If you want to find an up-to-date map of Haiti, then there is only one place to go. It is not Google Maps or any of its competitors. It is the admirable OpenStreetMap.org (OSM), which is being updated even as I write by volunteers all over the world. More..
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PC World: OpenStreetMap Attracts 200,000 volunteers
Wednesday, January 6, 2010A volunteer-led project to create an open-source map of the entire earth, called OpenStreetMap, has amassed over 200,000 contributors since its inception, the founder announced in a blog entry. More…
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New Scientist: Innovation: Making a map for everyone, by everyone
Tuesday, December 8, 2009Crowdsourcing a map of the world, and letting anybody edit it, might sound supremely democratic, but until now it has been a largely exclusive game. Unless you’re familiar with cartographic jargon, you haven’t been able to play.
That’s a pretty big obstacle for the OpenStreetMap project, which wants to generate a map that no government agency [...]
Macworld: CloudMade’s Mapzen, OpenStreetMap editor goes live for Mac, iPhone
Thursday, December 3, 2009Online tool that aims to simplify the process of editing data in OpenStreetMap. More…
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ZDNet: CloudMade Betas New Map Editing Tool
Thursday, December 3, 2009CloudMade last made an appearance on ZDNetUK as part of an OpenStreetMap themed blog back in February of this year when the company’s involvement with the free and editable map of the world project was starting to gain pace. It was at this time that the London, Kiev and Silicon Valley based vendor first [...]
GPS Business News: CloudMade launches navigation dev tools and POI marketplace
Wednesday, December 2, 2009This week geospatial solution provider CloudMade is introducing two new tools called Data Market Place and Navi-studio to its developers of location-based services and applications. More…
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Forbes: Google’s Plan To Map The World
Wednesday, November 25, 2009The navigation service industry shuddered last month after Google announced its first turn-by-turn navigation program, Google Maps Navigation. Like most Google programs, Maps Navigation is free to consumers, making paid services from other nav companies look pricey–or worse, unnecessary–in comparison. More…
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Macworld: CloudMade pushing open-source alternative to Google Maps
Thursday, November 19, 2009Open source mapping may provide better map info for customers and iPhone app developers
OpenStreetMap is a community-based mapping project that uses so-called “crowdsourcing” to map out the world. Rather than top-down models such as those provided by the Ordinance Survey or, to a large extent Google Maps, OpenStreetMap uses the power of the community to [...]
New York Times: Happy National Geography Week
Thursday, November 19, 2009Here is our list of fun and useful tools from The Learning Network, The Times and around the Web. What have you found that works well to teach geography? More…
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New York Times: Online Maps: Everyman Offers New Directions
Tuesday, November 17, 2009SAN FRANCISCO — They don’t know it, but people who use Google’s online maps may be getting directions from Richard Hintz. Mr. Hintz, a 62-year-old engineer who lives in Berkeley, Calif., has tweaked the locations of more than 200 business listings and points of interest in cities across the state, sliding an on-screen place marker [...]