The development and popularization of the Global Positioning System (GPS), satellite navigation, and digital mapping, are transforming the way in which we imagine, encounter, and experience the city. Before we used to navigate with the aid of physical landmarks, paper maps and face-to-face advise from other citizens. Nowadays we can navigate with the help [...]
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In July of 2004, Steve Coast, a 24-year-old British computer scientist and entrepreneur, started OpenStreetMap (OSM) with the objective of creating a free editable map of the world. Tired of the problems data proprietary companies generate by the restricting geographical information (In the UK, as in other European countries, geographic information is very expensive and [...] Many times in north America people confuse my last name with the name of a dance and a song that was popular in the 1990s and that had an infamous video that showed beautiful women dancing at a beach. People say, it is like lambada, the forbidden dance? I usually make jokes about that. However, [...] |
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