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July 9th, 2010
AOL’s MapQuest Looks to Wikipedia Model for Mapping

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WALL ST JOUR – MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google’s, is taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like model — in which users would generate the maps themselves and combine the results for everyone to use. The company, a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday morning that it is launching a site in the U.K. based on a project calledOpenStreetMap, which is dedicated to user-created mapping. The OpenStreetMap project has caught on most quickly in Europe, which is why MapQuest is starting there, but AOL also will devote $1 million to support the growth of open-source mapping in the U.S.  Read More

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