Google
Maps may have dominated the affairs of the map on the internet, but lately it
seems the service is becoming obsolete some third-party applications. Call it
Foursquare, one of the popular social networking service is now starting to
switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap , a project of open source is
developed in a non-profit. iPhoto, the latest application for the iPhone and
the iPad also decided to use OpenStreetMap, though still using the mapping
feature Google Maps.
Today
Microsoft also did not want to miss. PCWorld reported that Microsoft support
OpenStreetMap by employing application founder, Steve Coast, the main developer
Bing Mobile. Not only that, Microsoft also reported maps the data contributed
to the project open source is.
Microsoft
supports OpenStreetMap seriousness of this course to create mapping
applications developers begin to think again. Google is still leading in some
applications, but not an impossible thing if his position shifted by other
developers.
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