openstreetmap
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Linux Group Shares Its First Open Dataset for Creating Real Google Maps Alternatives
If you’re not Google (or, to a much lesser extent, Apple), map apps are damned hard to make. Last year, several major heavy hitters in tech, including the likes of Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon, decided to lay down their arms and meet under a flag of parlay held aloft by the Linux Foundation to make…
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Watch How Open-Source OpenStreetMap Mapped The Globe In Just 7 Years
A decade ago, OpenStreetMap launched as a free, open-source alternative to the other mapping tools you may encounter on the internet. Turns out that the collaborative experiment worked exceptionally well, and thanks to a new site, you can see for yourself how the Wikipedia of mapping has covered the whole planet.
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The Individual Contributions To OpenStreetMap, Visualised
OpenStreetMap has been diving deep into its historical data recently, but this visualisation is particularly amazing: it shows the work of all the individual users who studiously update the mapping service.
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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.