New Media Awards 2007 Atos Origin

OpenStreetMap

http://www.openstreetmap.org

Nominated in Contribution to civic society award category.

OpenStreetMap is a project with nothing less than the goal of mapping the entire world and releasing that data under a free license. Much like Wikipedia does for encyclopedias, OpenStreetMap will create a body of free geodata, freeing the imaginations of users all over the world

1 nomination from readers

  • While there are excellent geospatial and GIS tools under Open Source licenses, there is little free data. Knowing how to make a book is good, but it is the words on the page that count. OpenStreetMap is attempting to create that data through a collaborative wiki-like process, much as Wikipedia has freed the encyclopedia. However, considerably more development efforts are needed to create a truly amazing platform for this kind of collaboration for this to happen. This award will help the OpenStreetMap Foundation create that platform.

    Nominated by Corey Burger, 05 April 2007