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 ...

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 ...

Satellite Studio, a team of designers and developers, has created a fun way to make use of all the information people add to the OpenStreetMap database. It has launched OpenStreetMap Haiku, a website ...

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 ...

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 ...

MapBox has unveiled a new map editor it created for the OpenStreetMap data project. Called iD, this software is said to make it easier for users to contribute data to maps right from within the ...

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 ...

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 ...