Another major addition was of course the AND software company donating all of their map data of the Netherlands to Open Street Map (see below). Next up, so the AND people stated, will be full China data (!), and maybe later other countries too... This news appeared on several media (see eg .below), but I don't recall seeing it at this forum...
__ Barend Köbben International Institute for Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands) ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335 >From http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=223 : AND donate entire Netherlands to OpenStreetMap Automotive Navigation Data (AND) is a leading provider of location, routing, mapping and address management are donating a street network of the entire Netherlands. Yes, an entire country. This is basically phenomenal. We¹ll have our first country complete from this data, which AND and I want to work with the community to import. This is not least because fantastic work has already been done in Amsterdam and elsewhere by the Digital Pioneers supported openstreetmap netherlands community. AND will be at the State of the Map, and you should be too :-) Here¹s the press release: _______________________________________________ geo-discuss mailing list geo-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
