CloudMade, which provides collaborative data and tools to developers and OEMs for mapping and navigation applications, has raised $12.3 million in series B funding led by Greylock Partners with ...

Since launching in 2004, OpenStreetMap (OSM) has evolved from a modest attempt to build an open map into a mature global geospatial ecosystem. Its development can be traced through measurable progress ...

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 ...

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 ...

Esri president Jack Dangermond affirmed his commitment to making map content accessible to everyone with a monetary donation to the OpenStreetMap Foundation. The OpenStreetMap Foundation's initiative, ...

Britain has a long history of map making. Ordnance Survey was set up in 1791 to create accurate maps of southern England in preparation for a French invasion. The information in these first maps was ...

Why open source needs an open geographic dataset. Open source has won. The fact that free software now dominates practically every sector of computing (with the main exception of the desktop) is proof ...