MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data
MapQuest will not go gentle into that good night. — The navigation software — which debuted in 1996 and was later eclipsed …
MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data
MapQuest will not go gentle into that good night. — The navigation software — which debuted in 1996 and was later eclipsed …
How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers, users, and merchants in 500+ Southeast Asian cities, adding 800,000+ km of missing roads to OpenStreetMap
The super-app uses its own drivers and cameras to create hyperlocal maps in eight countries. — • JAKARTA, INDONESIA Mastodon: @sohkamyung@mstdn.io . X: @pitdesi and @anupkaphle . Forums: Hacker News...
As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work
Corey Dickinson / Bloomberg : Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @kmanaugh , @citylab , @citylab , @citylab , and @citylab Tweets: Bloomberg CityLab / @citylab : “These compan...
As Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Amazon, and others play larger roles in OpenStreetMap, hobbyists fear private sector will overshadow their work
What do Lyft, Facebook, the International Red Cross, the U.N., the government of Nepal and Pokémon Go have in common? Tweets: @citylab , @johnjcz , @wongmjane , @mslaurabliss , @tmcw , @tmcw , @kmanau...
Google Maps' moat is vanishing after a ~1,400% price hike for API usage in 2018, as OpenStreetMap improves with support from Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft
Joe Morrison / A Closer Look with Joe Morrison : Tweets: @randfish and @samgoeta Tweets: Rand Fishkin / @randfish : How can anyone ever compete with Google? In search, I don't have an answer. But in ...
OpenStreetMap provider CloudMade shuts its doors on small users
(Original email at bottom.) — CloudMade, a company selling mapping services (many based on OpenStreetMap data) that competed head-to-head with Google, let its users know that as of May 1st, they'll ...
Why the world needs OpenStreetMap: no one company should have a monopoly on place
Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap — Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask “Why not use Google Maps?”. From a practical standpoint, it's a reasonable question …
Mapping service MapBox demos 40-minute drone flight producing 100 acre map for OpenStreetMap
Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap — Last weekend we captured 100 acres of aerial imagery at 4cm resolution. It took less than an hour to fly, and it was easy to publish the imagery …