http://brainoff.com/weblog/2006/12/04/1214 Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:48:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2006/12/04/1214/comment-page-1#comment-1618 Ian Forrester Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:22:54 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2006/12/04/1214#comment-1618 Good on Yahoo! Good on Yahoo!

]]> http://brainoff.com/weblog/2006/12/04/1214/comment-page-1#comment-1511 geobloggers » Blog Archive » Open Street Map gets Yahoo Map Tiles Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:29:53 +0000 http://brainoff.com/weblog/2006/12/04/1214#comment-1511 [...] Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo! … and I enjoy it. Something totally, like, awesome* has finally happened. Both Mikel and Steve over on the opengeodata blog (<~~ that’s the one to click) have released the news that Yahoo! have agreed to let OSM us their satellite map tiles. As Steve points out … “Of course, we still need to get all those street names and features. GPS traces are by no means dead - think of the new housing estates and areas without imagery. But instead of cycling down every road you should be able to just pass lots of them at either end to get the names. Or just from memory.” [...] [...] Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo! … and I enjoy it. Something totally, like, awesome* has finally happened. Both Mikel and Steve over on the opengeodata blog (<~~ that’s the one to click) have released the news that Yahoo! have agreed to let OSM us their satellite map tiles. As Steve points out … “Of course, we still need to get all those street names and features. GPS traces are by no means dead – think of the new housing estates and areas without imagery. But instead of cycling down every road you should be able to just pass lots of them at either end to get the names. Or just from memory.” [...]

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