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We All Live In A Watercolour With These New OpenStreetMap Skins

Google Maps is mighty useful, but not everybody’s a fan — including Apple, who seem to be ditching it. But OpenStreetMap isn’t the nicest-looking thing, and let’s not discuss Bing. This new OpenStreetMap skin, however, is hands down the best-looking digital map I’ve ever seen.


January 18, 2012
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Is A Google Contractor Trying To Destroy OpenStreetMap? (Updated)

Well, this is bad. OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia of world maps, has been vandalised , with someone deliberately screwing up its data. Worse, the offending IP addresses seem to be coming from a set belonging to Google India. Be careful where you drive. Updated with official Google statement.