Compete with Google Maps, Microsoft Give Support to OpenStreetMap

Google Maps may have dominated the affairs of the map on the internet, but lately it seems the service is becoming obsolete some third-party applications. Call it Foursquare, one of the popular social networking service is now starting to switch from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap , a project of open source is developed in a non-profit. iPhoto, the latest application for the iPhone and the iPad also decided to use OpenStreetMap, though still using the mapping feature Google Maps. Today Microsoft also did not want to miss. PCWorld reported that Microsoft support OpenStreetMap by employing application founder, Steve Coast, the main developer Bing Mobile. Not only that, Microsoft also reported maps the data contributed to the project open source is.

Microsoft supports OpenStreetMap seriousness of this course to create mapping applications developers begin to think again. Google is still leading in some applications, but not an impossible thing if his position shifted by other developers.

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