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Submission + - OpenStreetMap Sends UK Volunteer Mapper to Antigua (openstreetmap.org)

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Gerv

on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @07:40AM

Gerv writes: "When Google launched their Map Maker community mapping tool last year, they included loads of Caribbean islands. This led Ed Parsons (chief Google Maps guy) to say that he was sad there wasn't any fieldwork involved. Well, now OpenStreetMap have gone one better — following a successful Pledgebank pledge, they have got together the money to send one randomly-chosen guy to Antigua for a week to work on the OpenStreetMap map!"

Submission + - Iran Claims Launch of First Space Rocket

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chris_bloke

on Sunday February 25, 2007 @04:52AM

chris_bloke writes: "Iranian Students News Agency appears to be claiming that Iran has successfully launched its first space rocket. This claim is being reported in English by Radio Javan and now the Interational Herald Tribune. Sadly the Iranian Space Agency's English Language website is very much under construction and the News link doesn't work (and neither do most of the others)."

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