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John McKerrell
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial
Mapping API

Multimap.com
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 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
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Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API
Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API

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Using Crowd Sourced Data in a Commercial Mapping API