ItoWorld produced an impressing Video on OpenStreetMap mapping. Its absolutely impressing how fast a community can develop something like OpenStreetMap. Crowdsourcing is not only about shifting the work towards a community. Its more about how a community can change the world. Meanwhile countries like USA or the Netherlands are disclosing their maps for OpenStreetMap. Take a look at the video and you will understand why OSM will change the world.

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo

Last weekend on the Barcamp in Stuttgart (#bc0711) I learned more about OpenStreetMap. Extreme impressing! What I really liked was the tremendous power of communities. Peter gave a very good presentation on Openstreetmap.

Presentation:

Here are the live examples:

Buenos Aires

Google:

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OpenStreetMap:

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Hanoi:

Google:

Größere Kartenansicht

OpenStreepMap:

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Kapstadt:

Google:

Größere Kartenansicht

OpenStreetMap:

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