Ars Technica: OpenStreetMap: Crowd-sourcing the world, a street at a time
Monday, May 31, 2010
Ars Technica: OpenStreetMap: Crowd-sourcing the world, a street at a time
Wikipedia’s “crowdsourced knowledge” model has created a spectacular resource, but everyone knows the big caveat: if the data’s important, don’t trust the online encyclopedia without verifying it first. So how well would a similar crowdsourcing model work for a detailed street-level map of the world? More…