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OpenStreetMap has also been used to create iPhone apps such as MotionX, which is targeted at hikers, skiers and bikers; B.iCycle, a cyclometer that shows burned calories, trip distance and...
MapBox has already developed and published open source tools in order to improve OSM tracing (some of which use Microsoft’s Bing Maps), but now they’re going to really push even further to make...
Central to ForeverMap 2 is the OpenStreetMap data which powers the app. Much like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, crowdsourced and global project of over 650,000 contributors...
From Kimberly C. Kowal, the Lead Curator, Digital Mapping of the British Library: The technology is an an upgraded version of Klokan Technologies initial georeferencing software...
Crowdsourcing has allowed Yandex.Maps to add plans of such cities as Chita, Belgorod and Ulan-Ude, among many others. Yandex.Maps now offers user-generated city plans for places as large as...
“The mapping service now includes detailed plans of almost 400 cities across Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Crowdsourcing has allowed Yandex.Maps to add plans of such cities as Chita,...
Especially popular in Britain and Germany, OpenStreetMap is built by users who trace their travels on GPS units then connect the dots to draw highways, streets and hiking trails on digital maps....
“If you’d like to help make our estimates better through crowdsourcing and have a GPS-enabled phone, try using Google Maps for mobile the next time you’re in traffic,” the company writes.
“This community based ‘crowd-sourcing’ approach to digital mapping could soon overtake commercial map providers in both the quality of the data and the speed of updates,” he said. “This local...
Ben Vershbow sees many more such surprises down the road. Vershbow is the director of NYPL Labs, the Library’s experimental digital humanities unit. According to Vershbow, cultural heritage...
Last week the Guardian launched a campaign to improve the teaching of computer science and IT in schools. In this campaign, others offered specific elements they had introduced in their own...
OpenStreetMap has also openly celebrated the news that Google this year began charging major business users of its own Google Maps API (application programming interface) for the service. Once a...
When the subject of crowdsourcing comes up, the question of quality control is rarely far behind. So far, library curators say, the volunteers' work has been excellent. Once in a while...
One advantage of working with Google is that the crisis map can also be viewed via Google Earth, an excellent example of crowdsourced crisis mapping. Chinese volunteers must crowdsource solutions,...
The map, dubbed a "Twitter heartbeat", works by glowing blue if a significant amount of positive sentiment is expressed about a certain subject, or red if negative. During the US...
Based in The Netherlands, TomTom's MapShare provides the best maps for over 90 destinations around the globe. TomTom’s unique Map Share technology enhances your navigation experience, letting...
The project is totally perfect for people who are really interested with science, particularly with the universe and all those celestial objects. It's a one-of-a-kind chance for everyone out...
Like the Hopkins Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which seeks to map every object in the heavens, the Open Connectome Project leverages crowdsourcing and cloud computing to do large-scale science. It...
Here's how you can use digital channels to get involved this year's Earth Day: 1. Plant Trees Through Catalog Spree; 2. Fundraise via Edward Norton’s Green Earth Day Challenge or...
The crowdsourced map is part of a larger campaign led by FixFood, a non-profit run by documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner, to reduce the use of antibiotics in factory-farmed cows, hogs,and poultry....
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