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 ...

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 ...

No audio available for this content. OpenStreetMap, the user-created map used by many of the biggest sites on the web, has today unveiled an entirely new editor that makes it easier to contribute than ...

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 ...

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: ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is being given a notable boost this week — a ...

Facebook said it will open its Map With AI service to the OpenStreetMap project, which aims to be an open source mapping data source. In conjunction with the Map With AI service, Facebook also said it ...

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 ...

The iD editor represents the most dramatic facelift for OpenStreetMap since the project first started back in 2004. Imagine Wikipedia’s complicated, esoteric interface for editors being overhauled 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 ...

AOL launched a version of its MapQuest application on Friday for the U.K. using data from OpenStreetMap, a project that uses volunteers to create detail-rich maps that are free. MapQuest Open will ...