CloudMade, which provides collaborative data and tools to developers and OEMs for mapping and navigation applications, has raised $12.3 million in series B funding led by Greylock Partners with ...

Since launching in 2004, OpenStreetMap (OSM) has evolved from a modest attempt to build an open map into a mature global geospatial ecosystem. Its development can be traced through measurable progress ...

Grab, Southeast Asia’s top ride-hailing company, has hit a roadblock in its efforts to improve its mapping and routing service after running into trouble with OpenStreetMap, the world’s largest ...

Crowdsourced mapping efforts are helpful in many places, but they're most useful in corners of the globe where even the professional maps are incomplete -- you can address gaps in coverage that might ...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) have partnered to release an open source software toolkit designed to harness the power of crowdsourced mapping for Geospatial ...

Britain has a long history of map making. Ordnance Survey was set up in 1791 to create accurate maps of southern England in preparation for a French invasion. The information in these first maps was ...

OpenStreetMap has been diving deep into its historical data recently, but this visualization is particularly amazing: it shows the work of all the individual users ...

Why open source needs an open geographic dataset. Open source has won. The fact that free software now dominates practically every sector of computing (with the main exception of the desktop) is proof ...