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Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API

by John McKerrell

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John McKerrell Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API Multimap.com
Sources Geonames
Wikipedia
Wikipedia - Implementation Taking complete dataset and parsing it Hosted by Multimap Updated on a regular basis Also available on maps.live.com
Wikipedia - Issues Hard to parse Special syntax required, people often get it wrong Some people try to do new non-standard things
Wikipedia - Positives People were really nice Email got a quick response and initiated a phone conversation Aided us in meeting the terms of our license Weren’t pushy about donating to the foundation
Flickr