Flickr using OpenStreetMap data

14 Aug 2008

Flickr is using the street data from OpenStreetMap to map the inner city of Beijing for the Olympic games - their own Yahoo! maps just don't have any available data for this region. This might look like quite a surprising move for Yahoo/Flickr but then Yahoo! has been supporting the OpenStreetMap project for quite a while. [via]

Posted by Dominik Schwind on Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 9:16 AM

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