You have a choice when it comes to maps, and the answer isn’t as clear as it used to be. Google’s maps are still king, but OpenStreetMap is making a name for itself, gaining favor among many apps and ...

March 19, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google For a quick set of directions it's tough to beat Google Maps, but what if you need to use the map data for ...

Google Maps may be the dominant player in the mapping business still, but there's a rising star in an open-source competitor called OpenStreetMap that's been heavily backed by Microsoft. Due to the ...

Russian internet company Mail.ru Group has announced that its Maps.me mapping app has been open-sourced, making it available for developers to freely embed maps in their own apps. Based on data from ...

Yesterday we told you that the newly-released iPhoto for iOS wasn’t using Google Maps data to provide map tiles for geotagged pics. The news was particularly shocking because Apple has always used ...

‘Pokémon Go’ has switched its map service from Google Maps to OSM, and that might change your in-game display. Are Niantic and Google having a fight? ‘Pokémon Go’ is available now on Android and iOS.

If you're looking for detailed maps of the Olympic sites around Sochi, Google maps may not be your best bet. OpenStreetMap, the crowdsourced Wikipedia of cartography, looks to have much better ...

I created a tool for my own use to export SVGs from OpenStreetMap (OSM) data that can be edited in Illustrator, to serve as ...

Wikipedia’s “crowdsourced knowledge” model has created a spectacular resource, but everyone knows the big caveat: if the data’s important, don’t trust the online encyclopedia without verifying it ...