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Submission + - OpenStreetMap Launches a new easy to use HTML5 editor

Submitted by SWroclawski on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @07:48AM

SWroclawski writes: On the heels of the news that OpenStreetMap is allowing anonymous contributions with its "note" system, the project has launched a new in-browser editor called iD, which is not only easier to use, but written completely in Javascript, using the D3 library for rendering.
With all these improvements, OpenStreetMap is gaining popularity and has started a new http://donate.openstreetmap.org/server2013/donation campaign for additional hardware to support all the new contributors.

Submission + - OpenStreetMap adds easier reporting of map problems

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @10:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: OpenStreetMap recently topped 1 million registered users. Now they are trying to make the barrier to entry for contributing to the project even lower. A new "notes" feature, announced on the project's blog, allows anonymous users to submit bug reports which will alert mappers in the area to incorrect or incomplete map information. The feature also allows for commenting on notes, potentially enabling two-way communication between a mapper and a bug reporter if more information is needed.

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."

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