Founder of OpenStreetMap, Steve Coast, has taken a position as a Principal Architect for Bing Mobile at Microsoft. What this means is that Steve will lead a new initiative of Bing’s involvement with the OpenStreetMap project, a community of 250,000 people who have built maps for all countries in the world. Microsoft is donating access to Bing’s Aerial Imagery for use in the OpenStreetMaps project, as part of this initiative.
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