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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 [...]
CNET: Crowdsourcing cartography with PublicEarth and OpenStreetMap
Monday, November 16, 2009Wikipedia killed the encyclopedia business, in print and online, as it’s hard to make a revenue model work that involves paying people to create content when there are hordes of enthusiastic experts around the world willing to do the job for free. The business of mapping may be similarly doomed, as indicated by PublicEarth, a [...]
Scientific American: New micro-mapping software lets travelers plot points of interest while they walk
Wednesday, November 11, 2009It seems there’s an online community or social network for every facet of life these days. One area where this makes a lot of sense is in map-making, given how well locals know their own territory. This might explain why OpenStreetMap—a map of the world that can be edited by anyone with Web access—has expanded [...]
Tech Crunch: How CloudMade will deal with Google Navigation Monster
Friday, October 30, 2009European startup Cloudmade, which offers data and tools to developers and OEMs for mapping and navigation applications, isn’t the only company to get hit hard by Google’s new disruptive Navigation product. More…
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Fox 5 News: OpenStreetMap to produce a map more accurate than anything else on the market
Monday, October 19, 2009ATLANTA – Thea Clay is with OpenStreetMap , or OSM, and they’re behind the massive effort to produce a map more accurate than anything else on the market. In addition, all the data will be given away free for others to use. The Atlanta mapathon will took place this past weekend, with around 200 [...]