Open Street Map August 10, 2009
Posted by cuyler in Software.trackback
FLOSS Weekly #81 interviews Steve Coast of the Open Street Maps project. Open Street Maps is like the Wikipedia of street maps. The map data is updated and maintained by Internet users and is available for anyone’s use (provided that OpenStreetMap gets proper credit).
I am a big user of the Google and Bing maps, but their map data cannot be used for third party applications without paying some exorbitant licensing fee. I love the idea of people with hand-held GPS devices collaborating to create a comprehensive set of maps anyone can use. Every now and then the big internet map sites steer me wrong and now users can go ahead correct them and add other useful information.
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