Senior SDE and Tech Lead at Amazon Maps, leading geospatial data pipelines for last-mile delivery. Open-source standards and tooling quietly became the default infrastructure of digital maps. Why the ...

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 ...

ML powered Electricity Outage Prediction. Know when and where there is a chance of an electricity outage to make more informed and smart decisions.

OpenStreetMap (OSM), the crowdsourced mapping project that lets anyone update and edit online maps, has announced that it now supports Bing Streetside imagery in its online iD editor. This represents ...

As more private companies offer us maps, we need an open-source, editable solution - a cartographical Wikipedia Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask "Why not use Google ...

Skobbler, a mapping startup based in Germany and Romania, recently announced that it had rolled out a new web-based map based on the crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap project, featuring HTML5 positioning ...

A few weeks ago we showed you a handful of neat tools to help you enjoy the ski season a bit more, but we missed a big one — Skimap.org. The main idea behind SkiMap is to allow users to upload maps ...

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 ...