Taking a page from Wikipedia, services like Waze have marshaled armies of unpaid contributors and their gps-equipped smartphones to map wide swaths of the world from scratch. consumers, companies ...

Maps are an especially powerful lens through which to understand history, connecting our world through one of its two fundamental organizing dimensions. Yet, what would history look like without ...

That is, until 107 volunteers from around the world logged on to their computers and, ... roads and waterways in OpenStreetMap, an open-source website that has been dubbed the "Wikipedia of maps." ...

“We plan to offer Scout with OSM for much of the world. We have already made significant headway toward this goal in the U.S., including using OSM for our HTML5 version of Scout.” OSM is the only ...

LaPorte and Hashemi said they built their map using the JavaScript library D3, datamaps-world.js, a service for searching the geolocation of IP addresses called freegeoip.net, and Wikimedia's ...

Waze started in Tel Aviv in 2006 as an open-source mapping project called Freemap and today claims 14 million drivers around the world. Users create Wikipedia-style maps of world Home Page ...

And yet we shouldn’t mistake a practical bent for a lack of ambition — Wikipedia maps knowledge as ambitiously as the encyclopedia of old; only its cartography is different. Indeed, mapping is woven ...

And anyone can use the maps — to find their way or to build their own map-based apps — for free. Conceived in the U.K. in the early 2000s by a lone British programmer, the service has since grown to a ...

Crowds create Wikipedia-style maps of the world. Consumers, companies and even disaster relief organizations have come to rely increasingly on ‘crowdsourced.

Taking a page from Wikipedia, services like Waze have marshaled armies of unpaid contributors and their GPS-equipped smartphones to map wide swaths of the world from scratch.

SAN FRANCISCO—When Benjamin Gleitzman moved from New York to the San Francisco Bay area, he used a talking turn-by-turn driving app to guide him across the country. In the middle of Wyoming, the ...

Taking a page from Wikipedia, services like Waze have marshaled armies of unpaid contributors and their GPS-equipped smartphones to map wide swaths of the world from scratch.