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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OpenStreetMap is the handiwork of Steve Coast (pictured above), a University College London "dropout" (Coast's own words) who has ...

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 ...

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No audio available for this content. OpenStreetMap, the user-created map used by many of the biggest sites on the web, has today unveiled an entirely new editor that makes it easier to contribute than ...

Google has become the king of maps because of the technology that it has developed over the past eight years. One competitor, OpenStreetMap, has developed its own tools and built a community of map ...

In February, we compared maps of Sochi's Olympic venues from Google Maps and OpenStreetMap, the massively crowdsourced world map created by volunteers. OSM's maps easily swept the medals, with far ...

‘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.

This is a guest post by Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of property search engine Nestoria. OpenStreetMap started four years ago in the UK as a project to create a free and editable world map. What began as ...

From internet protocols and operating systems, to databases and cloud services, some technology is so omnipresent most people don't even know it exists. The same can be said about OpenStreetMap, the ...