Microsoft is to closely cooperate with the OpenStreetMap project, whose founder it has hired. The initiative, announced on Tuesday, is starting with Microsoft's release of aerial Bing Maps imagery to ...

Transport for New South Wales has signed a waiver with the OpenStreetMap project, allowing the open data initiative to employ a number of the government’s geospatial data sets. In January, Transport ...

OpenStreetMap is a freely participating collaborative project that anyone can participate in world map creation, and it is regarded as one of the extremely successful open data projects. It is said ...

Many people describe CloudMade’s OpenStreetMap project as “Wikipedia for maps,” and they aren’t far off. The project allows anyone to add and edit map data around the globe, and the project is now a ...

Skobbler, a mapping startup based in Germany and Romania, recently announced that it had rolled out a new web-based map based on the crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap project, featuring HTML5 positioning ...

Along with Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap (OSM) is one of the flagship crowdsourcing projects on the Internet, but unless you are watching this space closely, it may come as a surprise that Steve Coast, the ...

Britain has a long history of map making. Ordnance Survey was set up in 1791 to create accurate maps of southern England in preparation for a French invasion. The information in these first maps was ...

As part of an initiative to leverage the OpenStreetMap project for its own Bing Maps, Microsoft has hired OSM founder Steve Coast, the company announced Tuesday. “As a Principal Architect for Bing ...

OpenStreetMap isn't just a powerful, open alternative to Google Maps – used in everything from Apple's maps to those on Flickr, Wikipedia and dozens of other sites – it's also a great example of the ...

Why open source needs an open geographic dataset. Open source has won. The fact that free software now dominates practically every sector of computing (with the main exception of the desktop) is proof ...

High-ranking members of the OpenStreetMap project -- an open source mapping project that competes with Google Maps -- have claimed that user accounts attached to a range of Google internet addresses ...