Knight Foundation Announces Support for New Open Mapping Tools | TechPresident - 1 views
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licensing terms
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grant
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licensing restrictions
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places where Google cannot or does not often go
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big, largely Western, multinational corporations
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worst of times, OSM reveals itself as a volunteer-driven project
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awful performance
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DevelopmentSeed
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DevelopmentSeed CEO
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really rich community of people
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want to map
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worldwide basemap
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making it easier
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competitor
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famously sophisticated map layers.
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complicated relationship
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supporter of open source
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funded through Google Summer of Code
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Map Maker and OSM sometimes compete for market share.
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undermining Google's geospatial dominance
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challenge a competitor's core competency
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weaken the competition
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grant challenge program focused on data in civic life
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Open Elections
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developer-friendly data
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LocalData
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research
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tool for community groups to collect and store data about their neighborhoods