It’s an open secret that Apple is actively looking for ways to extricate itself from Google’s sphere of influence, and one sliver of evidence of that can be found in the new iPhoto for iOS: ...

After questioning the source of the map data in Apple’s new iPhoto for iOS app, OpenStreetMap has moved to end speculation and has revealed that the Cupertino-based technology giant has begun using ...

When Apple launched iPhoto for iPhone, it quickly became clear that there was something odd going on with the maps in the application. Even though Apple never talked about this publicly, the data ...

Apple has finally acknowledged the use of OpenStreetMap data in its iOS iPhoto app, the open-source mapping project said yesterday. The iPhoto app, a photo-sorting tool for the iPad and iPhone, ...

Today, Hacker News brought an interesting new Minecraft world-generation tool to our attention. Arnis uses free geospatial data from OpenStreetMap to generate detailed Minecraft maps based on a ...

Why open source needs an open geographic dataset. Open source has won. The fact that free software now dominates practically every sector of computing (with the main exception of the desktop) is proof ...