Japanese progress in osm. Amazing stuff!
September 16, 2008 at 3:55 pm | Posted in geo, geodata, neogeography, openstreetmap | 1 CommentTags: flickr, japan, Mapping, openstreetmap, osm, pacific connection, tokyo, yahoo maps
Rather amazingly, this month has seen two great indications on the progress of open geodata in Japan.
Flickr.com has chosen OpenStreetMap for it’s maps of Tokyo!
OpenStreetMap Tokyo Flickr
And secondly the publication of a very good article about OpenStreetMap (in English too) in a very popular magazine in Japan, “Software Design Magazine”. Written by Bart Eisenberg as part of his “Pacific Connection” section.
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