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Philippe Huot

GGIM | United Nations Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management - 2 views

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united nations geospatial information mapping

shared by Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    The UN initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (GGIM)
Alexandre Enkerli

Knight Foundation Announces Support for New Open Mapping Tools | TechPresident - 1 views

techpresident.com/...support-new-open-mapping-tools

Mapping OSM

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • licensing terms
  • grant
  • licensing restrictions
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  • places where Google cannot or does not often go
  • big, largely Western, multinational corporations
  • worst of times, OSM reveals itself as a volunteer-driven project
    • Alexandre Enkerli
      Alexandre Enkerli on 24 Sep 12
       
      Hurray for citizen-driven innovation?
  • awful performance
  • DevelopmentSeed
  • DevelopmentSeed CEO
  • really rich community of people
  • want to map
  • worldwide basemap
  • making it easier
  • competitor
  • famously sophisticated map layers.
  • complicated relationship
  • supporter of open source
  • funded through Google Summer of Code
  • Map Maker and OSM sometimes compete for market share.
  • undermining Google's geospatial dominance
  • challenge a competitor's core competency
  • weaken the competition
  • grant challenge program focused on data in civic life
  • Open Elections
  • developer-friendly data
  • LocalData
  • research
  • tool for community groups to collect and store data about their neighborhoods
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