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<BR><FONT face=Tahoma>Numbers of volunteer cartographers worldwide in OpenStreetMap has reached 240,000. They are trying to create a digital map of </FONT><BR><FONT face=Tahoma>every street in every city and village on the planet. It is a kind of grass-roots Wikipedia for maps that is transforming how map data </FONT><BR><FONT face=Tahoma>are collected, shared and used — from the desktop to smart phones to car navigation, according to an article published in </FONT><BR><FONT face=Tahoma><EM>Los Angeles Times</EM>.</FONT><BR><BR><A href="http://beta.gisdevelopment.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17776:240000-volunteers-create-digital-map-of-world&catid=48&Itemid=1"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt" size=1>http://beta.gisdevelopment.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17776:240000-volunteers-create-digital-map-of-world&catid=48&Itemid=1</FONT></A><BR><BR> </body>
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