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wildmanI’m working at Microsoft and we’re donating imagery to OpenStreetMap!
I’ve super excited to tell you that I've accepted a position as Principal Architect at Bing Mobile and am moving to the Seattle, Washington area to work on maptastic things! Yay!
Even better, Microsoft is donating access to it's global orthorectified aerial imagery to help OpenStreetMappers make the map even better than it already is. OpenStreetMap, the project I founded, allows users to draw features like buildings and roads on top of an aerial imagery backdrop pictures like this:
This is a pretty big deal. Today, OpenStreetMap has a patchwork of imagery available that is sometimes good but sometimes not very high resolution or simply unavailable. This is the first step of what I believe will be an awesome series of announcements from Microsoft.
© http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima
I’ve super excited to tell you that I've accepted a position as Principal Architect at Bing Mobile and am moving to the Seattle, Washington area to work on maptastic things! Yay!
Even better, Microsoft is donating access to it's global orthorectified aerial imagery to help OpenStreetMappers make the map even better than it already is. OpenStreetMap, the project I founded, allows users to draw features like buildings and roads on top of an aerial imagery backdrop pictures like this:
This is a pretty big deal. Today, OpenStreetMap has a patchwork of imagery available that is sometimes good but sometimes not very high resolution or simply unavailable. This is the first step of what I believe will be an awesome series of announcements from Microsoft.
© http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima
