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 ...

🇸-🇩-🇪📱️🌐️💾️🔌️📖️ The official documentation source repository for the SDE MobileServer OpenStreetMap support plugin.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the intersection of the mobile and mapping aspirations of Apple, Microsoft, and Google lies an open project known as ‘OpenStreetMap.’ It is at once one man’s pipe dream writ real, a current pain in ...

Google has been accused of vandalizing maps of the OpenStreetMap project, a crowd-sourced project run by a UK-based non-profit firm. Malicious edits were made to a few of the wiki-style maps, and ...

Last month, when Zack Ajmal was planning a vacation to Italy, he set out to find the first thing that a traveler would need in a foreign land: a map. But digital maps of Rome and Venice for his Garmin ...

Crowdsourcing a map of the world, and letting anybody edit it, might sound supremely democratic, but until now it has been a largely exclusive game. Unless you’re familiar with cartographic jargon, ...