You have a choice when it comes to maps, and the answer isn’t as clear as it used to be. Google’s maps are still king, but OpenStreetMap is making a name for itself, gaining favor among many apps and ...
OpenStreetMap heat map showing changes and updates made during Operation Cowboy, a marathon mapping event held Nov. 23-25, 2012. As Americans stampede to malls and stores this Thanksgiving Day weekend ...
It’s an open secret that Apple is actively looking for ways to extricate itself from Google’s sphere of influence, and one sliver of evidence of that can be found in the new iPhoto for iOS: ...
No audio available for this content. A European region in 2015. (Image: OpenStreetMap) A tool developed by Mapbox explores “10 years of OpenStreetMap.” During that decade, hundreds of thousands of ...
Some map makers have found a way to draw people to their detail-oriented field: have a party. It involves replacing beer — at least for part of a day — with a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit to ...
An update to the iPhoto application for iOS has added proper attribution to the OpenStreetMap Foundation for mapping data included in the software. When iPhoto for iOS was released in March, the ...
This definition of omnipresent sums up many facets of society. Fast food chains? Everywhere. Reality TV shows? You know the answer. And what about Google? Yup, right again. What started as a simple ...
UN Mappers has announced a new training program on OpenStreetMap and humanitarian mapping in English, which is set to start soon. The program will cover a range of topics related to mapping for ...