OpenStreetMap user “Beej” is quoted widely in the L.A. Times article
on OpenStreetMap.
Digital map of the world is the product of a large-scale volunteer effort
With the help of more than 240,000 volunteer cartographers worldwide,
OpenStreetMap is trying to create an Internet map of every street in
every city and village on the planet.
June 09, 2010|By Mike Swift
SAN JOSE, Calif. — — When Brian “Beej” Hall first heard
about an ambitious volunteer effort to create an Internet map of every
street and path in every city and village on the planet, he was
hooked. At the time, the nascent effort had only a few American
members, and the U.S. map was essentially a digital terra
incognita.
Read the whole article here:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/09/business/la-fi-digital-maps-20100609
