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• Ars Technica: OpenStreetMap: Crowd-Sourcing the World, a Street at a Time

  http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/crowd-sourced-world-map.ars
  Article by Nate Anderson explaining how wikipedia's 'crowdsourced knowledge' model have been applied to mapping.

• BBC News: The Volunteer Mappers who Helped Haiti

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8517057.stm
  Slide-show article covering the efforts of OpenStreetMap mappers to improve the coverage of the area hit by the Haiti earthquake using donated aerial photography.

• BBC News: US City to Start Giant 'Mapathon'

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8305924.stm
  Atlanta aims to become the world's most digitally mapped city with a project that will map every road, trail, bike path and tree.

• New Scientist: Citizen Cartographers Fill the Gaps in Maps

  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23808-citizen-cartographers-fill-the-gaps-in-maps.html#.Ur6D8KcgGSM
  Article explaining how OpenStreetMap volunteers have brought free, much-needed collaborative maps to far-flung developing areas.

• Pocket-Lint: OpenStreetMap - Crowd Sourced Cartography Set to Re-Map the World

  http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/26612/osm-openstreetmap-interview-steve-coast
  Dan Sung interviews OSM founder Steve Coast, who explains how the project will make maps free and satnavs much cheaper.

• SwissInfo.ch: The Globe, Mapped by You

  http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/The_globe,_mapped_by_you.html?cid=35084414&link=tdj
  Openstreetmap chairman Simon Poole is interviewed about the project to create a freely available map of the world.

• Tech Crunch: OpenStreetMap Grows, Spawns Ecosystem

  http://eu.techcrunch.com/2008/11/27/openstreetmap-grows-spawns-ecosystem/
  Guest post by Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of property search engine Nestoria, explaining how the project has grown.

• The Atlantic Cities: Mapping the Growth of OpenStreetMap

  http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/03/mapping-growth-openstreetmap/4982/
  Looking back over the history of the crowdsourced digital street map, a familiar pattern emerges.

• The Guardian: Meet the Wikipedia of the mapping world

  http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/feb/04/mapping-open-source-victor-keegan
  Article by Victor Keegan, explaining how OpenStreetMap volunteers are mapping the world, with particular reference to Haiti.

• The Guardian: Why the world needs OpenStreetMap

  http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/14/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap
  Article by Serge Wroclawski, explaining that as more private companies offer maps, an open source solution that anyone can edit is still needed.

• The Independent: Are Mapbox and OpenStreetMap's Personalised Maps the Future of Cartography?

  http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/are-mapbox-and-openstreetmaps-personalised-maps-the-future-of-cartography-8675498.html
  Article by Sarah Shearman, explaining how people are creating their own maps and databases in a movement called open-source mapping.

 

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