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a community help to edit the digital maps (2)
There is a very strong community ethic around it," said Marc Prioleau of Palo Alto, who has mapped mountain bike trails of Sony VGP-BPS8 in the Santa Cruz Mountains and ski trails at Squaw Valley in the Sierra. "In some parts of the country, in some parts of the world, it's as much a social group as it is a maps group."
Shawn Britton, a Santa Clara software engineer, has discovered that adding mapping to the Sierra Club hikes he leads attracts more people. On a recent five-mile hike through Uvas Canyon County Park near Morgan Hill, his group carried two GPS units that tracked the exact location Dell inspiron 1521 battery of trails.
It took about three years for OpenStreetMap to hit 10,000 users, but over the past 12 months, the community has jumped from about 110,000 members to 244,000.Google has also been surprised by the emotional response people have had to its Map Maker product Sony VGP-BPS8A battery , which is available in 181 countries from Africa to the Philippines, with some individual users contributing tens of thousands of edits.
"Those local users took that to heart as a way to elevate their local community, to sort of put themselves on the map," said Lior Ron, group product manager for Google Maps. "The concept of what a map is, is changing. With these Dell inspiron 1525 battery tools, this is no longer just something that is owned by a government; it's owned by the community."
There is debate about which model produces better maps ¡ª OpenStreetMap's volunteer community or a traditional commercial mapmaker like Tele Atlas, which primarily relies on its proprietary mobile mapping van technology Sony VGP-BPS9 , sony vgp bps2c as well as satellite and aerial imagery and other sources.
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