Noticia Mapas colaborativos Editor: GigaOM (ingles)
Given the craziness of the first two weeks in September in the tech world an interesting hire that should have gotten more attention slipped largely through the cracks. Steve Coast, founder of the OpenStreetMap project, has joined Telenav, signaling a big move by the navigation outfit toward crowdsourced mapping. OpenStreetMap is the Wikipedia of mapping. OSM’s dedicated community of 1.3 million editors have gathered GPS data while driving, biking and walking the streets of the world to build a map from the ground up. They’ve even gone so far as to mark objects that exist on few other digital maps, from trees to park benches. That map was then offered up free to all comers. What you probably didn’t know is that Telenav is has been an active contributor to OSM for years, using the data it collects from its Scout app and other nav products to improve OSM’s maps. Telenav’s Martijn van Exel is currently president of the OSM board in the U.S., and he created MapRoulette.org, which identifies problem spots on OSM’s maps and suggests corrections to its editors. What Telenav hasn’t done, though, is actually use OSM’s maps in its products. Continua... Are crowdsourced maps the future of navigation? http://gigaom.com/2013/09/15/are-crowdsourced-maps-the-future-of-navigation/ Saludos. Sefer. _______________________________________________ Talk-ar mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ar
