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SOTM09: Will Yahoo! Be Full Open Source Geospatial Data by End of 2010 ?
Reports are coming from the State of the Map 2009 conference in Amsterdam, where Gary Gale, Head of UK Engineering for the Yahoo! Geo Technologies group gave a talk, that Yahoo! is planning to be using fully open source geospatial data by 2010. Steven Feldman says it best "... Yahoo will have removed all proprietary place data by 2010 and will make their data open."
Of course the inference is that Yahoo! would be using data sources like
OpenStreetMap rather than commercial providers like Navteq or TeleAtlas.
You can follow the SOTM09 presentations at
OpenGeoData.
July 11, 2009 in Spatial Data | Permalink
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This sounds excellent. How can we get our hands on a Case Study from Yahoo for their Open Source Mapping? It will be a compelling reason for many agencies to feel justified in using Geospatial Open Source.
Details should be linked from here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies
Posted by: Cameron Shorter | Jul 12, 2009 11:31:46 PM
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