Google Map Maker and Open Street Map

I ran across a post on the OpenGeoData blog that talked about Google Map Maker. This is a web application from Google that allows users to create vector data by digitizing satellite photography in certain parts of the world (not in the United States).

You can read the OpenGeoData blog post here:

http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=307

You can view, and try out, the Google Map Maker web application here:

http://www.google.com/mapmaker

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