[Aust-NZ] Open Source Mapping shakes competitors

[Jody Garnett]

I always compare and contrast this with the projects need of servers.
I would love to know if Microsoft and AOL are serving the data from
their own hardware or not?

That said the mandate of open street maps is to make the data
available; and they are doing a great job.

Jody

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Ross Johnson <rossgo at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> OpenStreetMaps could become the leading digital map provider within a few
> years, if technology giants like Microsoft,
> AOL and third party application developers continue to choose its free, open
> source mapping database for their
> location-based applications, Dow Jones reports.
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> http://www.dowjones.de/site/2010/10/interview-open-source-mapping-poses-threat-for-tomtom-nokia.html
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