Aug 30, 2009
Ajmal is among roughly half a million users who are eschewing proprietary maps information from GPS companies and instead going with crowdsourced versions, which they then load onto their GPS devices and smartphones. The key to these map hacks is OpenStreetMap. Founded in 2004, OSM is to maps what Wikipedia is to encyclopedias.

The only GPS satellite on public display is at...GPS Satellite via Wikipedia

GPS Hackers Blaze Own Trails With Crowdsourced Maps | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Rafer sez:
A half million isn’t a bad user number at this stage. Anyone know where they might have plucked it from?

(via rafer)

No idea, but I’m a huge fan of OpenStreetMap. Super cool stuff.

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