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Thursday, 30 July 2009
OpenStreetMap Sends UK Volunteer Mapper To Antigua

OpenStreetMap Sends UK Volunteer Mapper To Antigua

Gerv writes "When Google launched their Map Maker community mapping tool last year, they included loads of Caribbean islands. This led Ed Parsons (chief Google Maps guy) to say that he was sad there wasn't any fieldwork involved. Well, now OpenStreetMap have gone one better — following a successful Pledgebank pledge, they have got together the money to send one randomly-chosen guy to Antigua for a week to work on the OpenStreetMap map!"

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URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lBKqJKP3gSE/article.pl