OpenStreetMap, a project that the geographical data is freely available, has a financial lwa le injection received from 575.000 dollars. With the money wants to OpenStreetMap via the company MapBox new tools offer.
Mapbox, a company that maps for OpenStreetMap, has over half a million dollars from the Knight Foundation, a foundation that money will go to internet with an open structure. MapBox wants the money to use to develop tools that the geographic data in the OpenStreetMap databases to better access, reports AllThingsDigital.
The need for users of OpenStreetMap makes it easier to map data and metadata to add. Also, creating custom maps with MapBox easier, while there is also massive will be on the website of OpenStreetMap. The software MapBox to work in the spring of 2013. The code will also be on GitHub.
OpenStreetMap can be seen as an open-source alternative to commercial services such as Google Maps and Bing Maps. The popularity of OpenStreetMap is further increased since Google charges to users of its Maps api. Among others, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Apple and Foursquare have started to make use of the freely available map data.