Monday, 6 January 2014

Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap

Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap
Jan 6th 2014, 13:45, by Serge Wroclawski

Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap
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 practicality, but of what kind of society we want to live in. I discussed this topic in a 2008 talk on OpenStreetMap I gave at the first MappingDC meeting. Here are many of same concepts, but expanded.
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