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Making Navteq files

Watched a video of how Navteq creates their files, using a car mounted GPS, with 6 cameras, massive storage onboard, an analyst in the passenger seat who can tag items and added audio comments. :

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/making-navteq-maps-a1038.php

OSM and Wikis

Wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap

Effort started in 2009 to integrated OSM with Wikipedia - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap

Netsquared and Parkscan

Here is interesting webpages found today:

http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals/openstreetmap - from 2007, but has a little history of it in the U.S., including obstacles, needs, and ideas, including a link to www.parkscan.org

Hello

This blog will be about Open Street Maps and what I can do with them. I'm still a beginner, taking the first steps on this journey.