Microsoft helping OpenStreetMap

Microsoft has announced that it will be contributing to the OpenStreetMap project. "As a Principal Architect for Bing Mobile, Steve will help develop better mapping experiences for our customers and partners, and lead efforts to engage with OpenStreetMap and other open source and open data projects. As a first step in this engagement, we plan to enable access to Bing's global orthorectified aerial imagery, as a backdrop of OSM editors. Also, Microsoft is working on new tools to better enable contributions to OSM." Here, "Steve" is Steve Coast, the founder of OpenStreetMap.

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