‘Wikipedia of maps’ challenges Google
December 27, 2011
OpenStreetMap — a nonprofit wiki of maps and location data to which anyone can contribute, just like Wikipedia — is suddenly a legitimate challenger to Google Maps, Technology Review Mims’s Bits reports.
The prices that Google asked of its heaviest Maps users has led to a move away from Google and to OpenStreetMap, supported by deep-pocketed boosters, including MapQuest and Microsoft