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OpenStreetMap started four years ago in the UK as a project to create a free and editable world map.
I talked with Novaquark founder Jean-Christophe Baillie as he demoed the game at PAX, and his passion for the vision of a fully editable world was evident.
This is a guest post by Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of the Nestoria property search engine: OpenStreetMap started four years ago in the UK as a project to create a free and editable world map.
Crowd-sourced cartography is getting hot, too: in late May the company Telenav, which supplies maps to carmakers, said it would switch to OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to create a free editable world map, from its previous suppliers, which had included Nokia and TomTom.
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Beyond the professional maps, there are also collaborative projects such Open Street Map creating free, editable maps of the world and relying on users to correct things that are wrong in much the same way as Wikipedia.
OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.
OSM contributors are collectively building and keeping updated the first free and editable map of the world.
"Not only is the world entirely editable, at any scale, but it is also shared and synchronized for all players," Baillie explained.
CloudMade will professionalise and package geo data from OpenStreetMap, the global initiative to create a free, editable map of the world from user-generated input.
For example, Curator Space could link with OpenStreetMap (a free, editable map of the whole world) to help independent artists find venues to exhibit their work.
In this paper we benefit from the open street map (OSM) database which is a project aiming to produce and freely distribute digitally editable geographic maps and data of the world in different formats through the World Wide Web (Haklay and Weber 2008).
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