Hi everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation has just released new versions of their Wikipedia app for iOS and Android. One big change to the app is that they have switched to using OpenStreetMap (using the MapQuest Open tileset served via Leaflet, but Wikimedia plans to use its own tiles in the future) instead of Google Maps. Blog post here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/05/new-wikipedia-app-for-ios-and-an-update-for-our-android-app/
This switch is not for economic reasons (since Google currently does not charge app developers for Google Maps for mobile), but for idealogical reasons (Wikipedia is about open data/knowledge after all), and also since the map feature can now be viewed on more Android phones especially those that do not have Google Maps Mobile built in. 2012 is looking to be the year of OpenStreetMap. :) _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
