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• Google Accused of Vandalizing OpenStreetMap Data

  
  Find My IP AddressFind My IP Address — Authority: 121
  Google Accused of Vandalizing OpenStreetMap Data“Preliminary formula uncover users from Google IP address ranges in India deleting, relocating as well as abusing OSM interpretation together with pointed edits similar to reversing one-way streets,” OpenStreetMap wrote. “Two OpenStreetMap accounts have been ...
  2 weeks ago

• Personal musings on the authority of OpenStreetMap

  
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  There has been a lot of fairly excitable posting recently about the continuing rise of OpenStreetMap, and how it’s now being used in place of Google Maps,  in particular since Google started charging for data. People have been talking about how “ authoritative ” crowd-sourced spatial data can be, and to be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Contractors Vandalize OpenStreetMap Project [VIDEO]

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 880
  Two contractors working for Google have vandalized one of the biggest group online projects on the Internet, Open Street Map . The project’s blog reported that someone from a range of IP addresses that belong to Google edited the map to give false information, like a one-way street going in the wrong direction. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Contractors Maliciously Tamper Competitor’s Data, Fired Immediately

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 730
  There’s always a few bad apples out of a bunch of good ones. According to OpenStreetMap, an open source mapping project that is a direct competitor with Google Maps, user accounts that were attached to Google Internet addresses in India, were tampering with data. Google was quick to address their claims and after a ...
  2 weeks ago

• It’s Only Evil if You Get Caught, Right?

  
  James Fee GIS Blog — Authority: 407
  From RWW The official  blog of Open Street Map reports tonight  that someone at a range of Google IP addresses in India has been editing the collaboratively made map of the world in some very unhelpful ways, like moving and deleting information and reversing the direction of one-way streets on the map. I’m ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is a Google Contractor Trying to Destroy OpenStreetMap? [Google]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 862
  Well, this is bad. OpenStreetMap , the Wikipedia of world maps, has been vandalized , with someone deliberately screwing up its data. Worse, the offending IP addresses seem to be coming from a set belonging to Google India. Careful where you drive. More »
  2 weeks ago

• Google accused of map vandalism

  
  TG Daily - All News — Authority: 632
  The Google staff responsible for lying about Kenyan rival Mocality have been accused of other dirty tricks. read more
  2 weeks ago

• World Bank – Google Partnership for Community Mapping Raises Data Access Questions

  
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  From Google’s Lat Long blog post: “Under this agreement, the World Bank will act as a conduit to make Google Map Maker source data more widely and easily available to government organizations in the event of major disasters, and also for improved planning, management, and monitoring of public services provision. ...
  2 weeks ago

• And Even More Vandalism From Google IP Addresses

  
  TheUrbanTwist.com :: News. Entertainment. Music. Politics...Our Twist — Authority: 422
  In a bizarre twist of events, yet another company has come out complaining about anti-trust practices from search giant Google. Last week we saw Mocality, a Kenyan startup, allege that Google was scrapping data from its data base and which prompted Google to offer a very public and very embarrassing apology  to ...
  2 weeks ago

• OpenStreetMap (via new-aesthetic)

  
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  OpenStreetMap (via new-aesthetic )
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• Monday Morning News Kick Off: Defense Drawdown Provides Geospatial Opportunities; GEOINT Addresses Real-Time Needs; and a 3D IMAX Movie on Orbital Debris

  
  got geoint? — Authority: 408
  Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? As always, we hope you had a restful weekend and are prepared to take on the world. Even the most dedicated GEOINT professional sometimes needs a little push in the right direction to get the work week started. Thus our ever-popular MMNKO post, which ...
  2 weeks ago

• Goodbye Google Maps? A Trend Appears

  
  James Fee GIS Blog — Authority: 407
  Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish We at StreetEasy decided to build our own maps using, among other tools, OpenStreetMap, TileMill, MapBox and Leaflet, instead of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to Google. And yes, the money pushed us into doing it, but we’re happier with the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Changing priorities for a bit.

  
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  Im going to cease work on beefing up the Tallahassee map and fixing MapDust bug in Florida to start addressing area that the OSM Inspector shows needs to be addressed before the licensing change.  Given that this is time sensitive it will be my new effort up until April 1.
  3 weeks ago

• OpenStreetMap Has Momentum, Apparently

  
  James Fee GIS Blog — Authority: 407
  All joking aside, this is great news for the project. Nestoria is one of those companies that was told it would have to start paying real money for Google Maps. When Google couldn’t tell it exactly how much, Nestoria kicked Mountain View to the curb and switched to OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative effort to ...
  3 weeks ago

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