Hi All, There was some discussion here a couple months ago about the World Bank signing a partnership with Google.
This has changed a bit and yesterday they posted on their blog saying World Bank "supports citizen-mapping efforts that give users free access to the map data they create." (1) I think this is really exciting for OSM, some of us have already been working with the World Bank for a while. I wrote a post on HOT's blog about my feelings on it (2) as did Development Seed (3). Clearly it is a really exciting time for the project. Best, -Kate (1) http://blogs.worldbank.org/insidetheweb/maps-for-open-development (2) http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2012-03-19_the_world_bank_and_open_maps_for_development_im_excited (3) http://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/mar/19/world-bank-open-geo-data/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
