The Battle For Digital Mapping Starts
Blog Comment Earlier this year I wrote about the OpenStreetMap project which is slowly but surely gathering geographic data about the whole planet. The advantage of freely licensed geodata like OpenStreetMap is that you can do pretty much anything you like with...
[November 8, 2007, 14:59]
Traveling Salesman
Downloads Traveling Salesman is a route-planner and GPS-navigator using the map-data from OpenStreetMap via LibOSM. This application will enable you to manage your GPS easier and also to edit your maps. You can use it as a web-page or mobile with GPS-unit or...
[December 17, 2007, 11:15]
Open Source Project Aims To Map The World
News The OpenStreetMap (OSM) mapping data is collected by volunteers using GPS devices to record their movements as they drive, cycle or walk along all the roads in a particular area. Volunteer "citizen cartographers" are aiming to take on the likes of...
[November 14, 2006, 7:52]
Ordnance Survey Challenges Google
News Apart from the likes of Google, other organisations, such as the open-source OpenStreetMap — which is using volunteers with GPS devices to create a digital map of the UK — are also encroaching on the OS' traditional business.
[November 3, 2006, 9:19]
Ordnance Survey Opens Map Source Code
News Steve Coast, founder of open source mapping group OpenStreetMap said the OS's OpenSpace project represents "one of the most significant releases of a mapping data API", adding it will be interesting to see how the data is used.
[December 17, 2007, 8:13]
WHY? - Buy A SatNav?
Talkback I lost the will to live after a few paras. Who exactly cares about Open Source and all the convoluted complications in reinventing the wheel? Just pay. This is a throwback to people wanting everything for free on the Internet and Open Software.
[June 1, 2007, 13:52]
