While Apple and Google bicker, Knight invests in open maps

Andrew Phelps @ Neiman Journalism Lab - on 3/10/12
September was a big month for maps: Amazon released its own Maps API to challenge Google Loading... ’s hegemony. Apple Loading... , locked in a corporate feud with Google, dropped Google Maps Loading... in favor of a homegrown solution for iOS 6 (with disastrous results). Meanwhile, the Knight Foundation Loading... put its money and might behind maps owned by no corporation: OpenStreetMap Loading... . Read more

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September was a big month for maps: Amazon released its own Maps API to challenge Google’s hegemony. Apple, locked in a corporate feud with Google, dropped Google Maps in favor of a homegrown solution for iOS 6 (with disastrous results).

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OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Google, Application programming interface, The New York Times, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Shirley Knight, Apple, The Boston Globe

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