In the age of the internet, for the layperson, maps have gone beyond mere geographical markers or things one saw in an Atlas and forgot about. It has become the key to getting things done online, from ...

You have a choice when it comes to maps, and the answer isn’t as clear as it used to be. Google’s maps are still king, but OpenStreetMap is making a name for itself, gaining favor among many apps and ...

This definition of omnipresent sums up many facets of society. Fast food chains? Everywhere. Reality TV shows? You know the answer. And what about Google? Yup, right again. What started as a simple ...

From internet protocols and operating systems, to databases and cloud services, some technology is so omnipresent most people don't even know it exists. The same can be said about OpenStreetMap, the ...

Google Maps may be the dominant player in the mapping business still, but there's a rising star in an open-source competitor called OpenStreetMap that's been heavily backed by Microsoft. Due to the ...

Dan's love affair with tech began in 1985 with his first computer, the Enterprise 128. After a psychology and zoology degree at university, a career on stage and screen he joined Pocket-lint in 2009.

Google Maps lost another high-profile customer on Thursday when Wikipedia announced that it would be switching to OpenStreetMap (OSM), a free, crowdsourced alternative mapping project based in the UK, ...

OpenStreetMap, a free crowdsourced mapping project that aims to beat Google Maps when it comes to being the preferred source for online directions, has won another huge client: Wikipedia. The ...

Apple has given Google Maps the heave-ho for iPhoto on iOS, Apple's new photo management app for the iPad and iPhone. Open up a map in iPhoto for iOS and you may notice something a bit different – the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OpenStreetMap is the handiwork of Steve Coast (pictured above), a University College London "dropout" (Coast's own words) who has ...