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 ...

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 ...

Last week, Craigslist added OpenStreetMap data to its apartment listings, providing some much-needed geographic context to its site. Craigslist is notoriously conservative with respect to its design ...

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 ...

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: ...

MapQuest this morning announced the launch of its first U.S. site built on OpenStreetMap data, an information source encouraging consumer contributions. This was to be expected, after online mapping ...

Wikipedia’s “crowdsourced knowledge” model has created a spectacular resource, but everyone knows the big caveat: if the data’s important, don’t trust the online encyclopedia without verifying it ...

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 ...