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 ...

You can't copyright a fact. But that doesn't mean that data and databases are exempt from legal discussions and licensing requirements, even if the intention is to share the data openly. Such is the ...

Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask “Why not use Google Maps?”. From a practical standpoint, it’s a reasonable question, but ultimately this is not just a matter of ...

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 ...

From internet protocols and operating systems, to databases and cloud services, some technology is so omnipresent most people don’t even know it exists. The same can be said about OpenStreetMap, the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The iD editor represents the most dramatic facelift for OpenStreetMap since the project first started back in ...

In the world of online mapping, it feels like things aren’t quite going in Google’s direction these days: Apple switched away from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap when it launched iPhoto for iOS.

Do you want to catch Pokémon in Pokémon Go badly enough to mess with a volunteer project? After realizing the game sources its data from OpenStreetMap, some players have begun to do just that in an ...

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 ...

The OpenStreetMap project is an excellent example of how powerful crowdsourced data can be, but that’s not to say the system is perfect. Invalid data, added intentionally or otherwise, can sometimes ...