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Podcast: Does Foursquare Choosing OpenStreetMap Over Google Maps Matter?

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Tuesday, March 6th 2012


There have been a handful of organizations that have switched from using the Google Maps API to using OpenStreetMap data in their Web applications over the past few months. This week, one of the biggest location-based services players in the world, Foursquare announced why and how it did so. Is this a huge coup for OpenStreetMap? For Foursquare? For open source?

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