firefishy - Slashdot User

Comment OpenStreetMap has not asked for anything. (Score 5, Interesting) 304

by firefishy on Saturday August 28, 2010 @09:19PM (#33406482) Attached to: Can an Open Source Map Project Make Money?

I'm part of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team... We think it is great that Bing is using our open map data! Hell them using our data is great promotion for our project. We currently have no need to ask them for anything back and I'm sure if we tapped them, they would be supportive. Our project is about creating great open map data, not about becoming rich. Is Bing working on improve OpenStreetMap's open data further? Quite likely. They win, we win.

Comment Just use OpenStreetMap instead (Score 2, Informative) 289

by firefishy on Monday August 17, 2009 @12:24PM (#29093513) Attached to: TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App

OpenStreetMap is the Open Source data provider to a number of free/cheap iPhone applications. http://www.roadee.net/ being one of the more popular iPhone routing apps. OpenStreetMap.org is the wikipedia of maps.

Oracle Buys Sun 906

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 20, 2009 @08:11AM from the there-can-be-only-one dept.

bruunb writes "Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. 'We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle's earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle's non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year. This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined,' said Oracle President Safra Catz."

Submission + - OpenStreetMap buying satellite images to map Gaza (brainoff.com)

Submitted by

LeedsTracker

on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @09:32PM

LeedsTracker writes: "Recognising that current online maps of Gaza are not great, Mikel Maron is leading a project within OpenStreetMap to put that right. Monies have (mostly) been raised to buy satellite pictures, and OpenStreetMappers have volunteered to trace features from the imagery when it arrives. They're going to need help from people familiar with Gaza's geography who can match names to traced roads, buildings, towns etc. Obviously, people actually in Gaza have higher priorities at present, but ex-pats and aid workers (for example) could be helpful here."

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