[closed] History of OSM and why Open source

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I need some information for a University assignment about

I found OSM a good example for my research, I am also a User of OSM.

model opensource prizing history

asked 30 Oct '11, 12:39

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Some historical milestones are recorden on the wiki. You may also look at the mailing list archives and possibly interview Petter Reinholdtsen, Steve Coast or any of the early developers.
The servers at openstreetmap.org are run by the OSM foundation and is funded by donations and memberships. The development are mostly done by volunteers, but some have jobs in companies like Bing, GeoFabrik and CloudMade.
As far as the success we are saving lives, gaining support by Microsoft and giving developers a better map then Google.

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answered 30 Oct '11, 13:22

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