OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic data for the world

Re:OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic dat... by lxst on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @04:04AM (#5904285)

Technically speaking: Isn't Nokia HERE also a global non-US map-service, seeing as Nokia is based in Finnland?

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Re:OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic dat... by FredericJ on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @04:08AM (#5904303)

Nokia's cartography is from Navteq, a Chicago-based subsidiary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navteq

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Re:OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic dat... by tellarin on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @10:21AM (#5905667)

Actually, Navteq is no longer an independent entity since 2011-2012. The business unit is now called HERE [1] and mostly divided between Germany and the US.

It provides maps services for MS, MapQuest, Garmin, Amazon, Yahoo! Maps, Yandex, BMW, Oracle GIS...

But the Navteq brand still exists.

[1] http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/about-us/our-structu...

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Re:OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic dat... by lxst on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @04:33AM (#5904396)

Ah okay - thanks :)

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Re:OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic dat... by midnitewarrior on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @05:20AM (#5904565)

Yes I was coming to post this.

Clearly the person who wrote the title of this message is uninformed.

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Re:OpenStreetMap creates and distributes free geographic dat... by efdee on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @09:08AM (#5905279)

Or maybe you are!

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