Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

September 24, 2012

Foundation grants $575,000 for new OpenStreetMap tools

Filed under: Geographic Data,Mapping,Maps,Open Street Map — Patrick Durusau @ 5:22 pm

Foundation grants $575,000 for new OpenStreetMap tools

From the post:

The Knight Foundation has awarded a $575,000 grant to Washington-DC-based data visualisation and mapping firm Development Seed to work on new tools for OpenStreetMap (OSM). The Knight Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting quality journalism, media innovation and engaging communities. The award is one of six made by the Knight Foundation as part of Knight News Challenge: Data.

The funding will be used by developers from MapBox, part of Development Seed that designs maps using OSM data, to create three new open source tools for the OSM project to “lower the threshold for first time contributors”, while also making data “easier to consume by providing a bandwidth optimised data delivery system”.

Topic maps with geographic data are a sub-set of topic maps over all but its an important use case. And it is easy for people to relate to a “map” that looks like a “map.” Takes less mental effort. (One of those “slow” thinking things.) 😉

Looking forward to more good things to come from OpenStreetMaps!

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