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LA Times: Digital map of the world is the product of a large-scale volunteer effort
Wednesday, June 9, 2010With the help of more than 240,000 volunteer cartographers worldwide, OpenStreetMap is trying to create an Internet map of every street in every city and village on the planet. Read more..
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San Jose Mercury News: Now bike riders have their own smart-phone navigation systems
Sunday, June 6, 2010Navigational systems that guide drivers from Point A to Point B, either with a GPS device or a smartphone, are now considered essential by many car drivers. So why not bike riders? Read more…
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TechCrunch: Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos
Thursday, June 3, 2010It’s January 2012 and you’ve just gotten your new Android 3.0-based phone. You’re going on a road trip so you start up the newly-released Foursquare. Gone are the checkins of 2010. Now you tell it where you’re going. This time we’re headed to Harrah’s at Stateline, Nevada. But this is no Foursquare you’ve ever seen [...]
CNN: OpenStreetMap: Crowdsourcing the world, a street at a time
Wednesday, June 2, 2010Wikipedia’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? Read more..
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Ars Technica: OpenStreetMap: Crowd-sourcing the world, a street at a time
Monday, May 31, 2010Wikipedia’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…
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San Jose Mercury News: Volunteers Create New Digital Maps
Sunday, April 11, 2010When Brian “Beej” Hall first heard about an audacious volunteer effort to create an Internet map of every street and path in every city and village on the planet, he was hooked. At the time, the nascent effort had only a few American members, and the U.S. map was essentially a digital terra incognita. [...]
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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