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BBC News: US City to Start Giant 'Mapathon' - Atlanta aims to become the world's most digitally mapped city with a project that will map every road, trail, bike path and tree. Pocket-Lint: OpenStreetMap - Crowd Sourced Cartography Set to Re-Map the World - Dan Sung interviews OSM founder Steve Coast, who explains how the project will make maps free and satnavs much cheaper. BBC News: The Volunteer Mappers who Helped Haiti - Slide-show article covering the efforts of OpenStreetMap mappers to improve the coverage of the area hit by the Haiti earthquake using donated aerial photography. Tech Crunch: OpenStreetMap Grows, Spawns Ecosystem - Guest post by Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of property search engine Nestoria, explaining how the project has grown. Ars Technica: OpenStreetMap: Crowd-Sourcing the World, a Street at a Time - Article by Nate Anderson explaining how wikipedia's 'crowdsourced knowledge' model have been applied to mapping. SwissInfo.ch: The Globe, Mapped by You - Openstreetmap chairman Simon Poole is interviewed about the project to create a freely available map of the world. The Independent: Are Mapbox and OpenStreetMap's Personalised Maps the Future of Cartography? - Article by Sarah Shearman, explaining how people are creating their own maps and databases in a movement called open-source mapping. The Guardian: Meet the Wikipedia of the mapping world - Article by Victor Keegan, explaining how OpenStreetMap volunteers are mapping the world, with particular reference to Haiti. The Atlantic Cities: Mapping the Growth of OpenStreetMap - Looking back over the history of the crowdsourced digital street map, a familiar pattern emerges. New Scientist: Citizen Cartographers Fill the Gaps in Maps - Article explaining how OpenStreetMap volunteers have brought free, much-needed collaborative maps to far-flung developing areas. The Guardian: Why the world needs OpenStreetMap - Article by Serge Wroclawski, explaining that as more private companies offer maps, an open source solution that anyone can edit is still needed.
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