Grab, Southeast Asia’s top ride-hailing company, has hit a roadblock in its efforts to improve its mapping and routing service after running into trouble with OpenStreetMap, the world’s largest ...

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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 ...

In February, we compared maps of Sochi's Olympic venues from Google Maps and OpenStreetMap, the massively crowdsourced world map created by volunteers. OSM's maps easily swept the medals, with far ...

OpenStreetMap, the user-created map used by many of the biggest sites on the web, has today unveiled an entirely new editor that makes it easier to contribute than ever before. According to the ...

Steve Coast founded OpenStreetMap (OSM) in the UK in 2004. It’s 10 years old this year. He was inspired by the Wikipedia model and compelled by a lack of available map and location data in the UK at ...

Berlin-based maps and navigation app maker Skobbler, which has its own map engine and combines it with OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to power a range of mapping apps, has updated its iOS global maps app, ...

Navigation app developer Telenav has acquired Skobbler, as it pushes its preference for OpenStreetMap data and ramps up its challenge to Google Maps and Apple Maps. The acquisition, which closed ...

Bing announced they have added a new layer to the Maps data. The new layer is from Open Street Maps, a free editable map of the whole world. This layer is a lot like the Wikipedia concept, where ...

Telenav's switch to Open Source Mapping allows for more frequent software updates and traffic reports. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better ...