New Mapzen Updates Make Editing Smoother and Faster
We’ve taken on board a lot of feedback and made lots of fixes and updates to Mapzen which we think will make a significant difference to your editing experience. They’re aimed at helping you map more by providing even greater flexibility within Mapzen.
Here’s what we’ve added:
1. Easier to work in areas with lots of land use
It’s now a lot easier to work more accurately with land use and other areas, with the ability to turn their filling on or off to provide a clearer view of what you are putting a perimeter around when viewing the satellite imagery or background images.


2. Easier to align roads to satellite imagery
A new Hide/ Show Elements button has been added to the bottom of the editing window allowing you to quickly turn on / off elements to better see the background objects. This is really useful when trying to align roads to satellite imagery.
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3. More control when adding lines and areas
A much requested feature that you’ve all been waiting for. Now you can press ESC to cancel any editing made to shapes of lines and press ‘Enter’ to end editing with line types. This is really useful when adding new roads.
4. Mac Users: no more annoying zoom in / zoom out
If you have a magic mouse from Apple or use a MacBook touchpad you might have experienced sudden jumps in zoom level. If you have suffered this problem, you can now disable the ‘scroll’ function to prevent the map from accidentally zooming in or out.
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We hope you’ll find these updates useful – please continue to email us feedback, it’s incredibly useful to help us evolve and improve Mapzen. Here’s how you can get in touch
- Leave a post in the Mapzen forums
- Report a bug on the Mapzen issue tracker
- Send us a mail to mapzen@cloudmade.com
- Get in touch with Nick, Yuliya or Anton through Mapzen
The next Mapzen blog post will look at some new features coming up in the April release of Mapzen Beta. Until then, if you don’t have a Mapzen account already, you can sign up for one and start using Mapzen here – happy mapping!
March 10th, 2010 - Posted by Paul Jarratt in cartography, cloudmade, maps, mapzen, news, openstreetmap, products | | 0 Comments
Mapzen Updates and Sneak Preview of the Next Release
There’s been a lot of work going on behind the scenes to make Mapzen, CloudMade’s family of easy to use OpenStreetMap editing tools, even easier, even more useful and even more fun to use. So what’s new?
Mapzen POI Collector 1.1 – Now in the App Store
Mapzen POI Collector is CloudMade’s smash hit iPhone mapping app that lets you easily and quickly add a huge range of places of interest to OpenStreetMap. The latest version includes numerous updates and improvements – all based on feedback we received from Mapzen users.
Mapzen POI Collector 1.1 lets you map faster and smarter:
- Choose from over 45 new POI types based on user requests, including ‘Grit Bins’ for winter mapping, ‘Traffic Cams’ and many more
- All POI icons are full color for a more vibrant mapping experience
- Quickly find the POI type you are looking for with a slick new search feature
- Add even more detail to the map with new attributes including disability access, seating capacity and religious denomination
Other bug fixes and enhancements:
- GPS location functionality is faster and more reliable
- Faster map loading with an enhanced map engine

You can get the latest version for free from the App Store. Existing users can give feedback and help make Mapzen POI Collector even better.
Share your mapping adventures with the world
With the latest release of Mapzen, mappers can share their mapping adventures with friends and family or publish them for the whole world to see. An exciting cross between mapping and blogging, mappers can publish their mapping activity feed – which includes details of recently mapped areas as well as posts made by the user. Posts can range from short, Twitter style updates to longer, blog style entries that let mappers share their experiences. Mappers’ activity feeds are tagged with the location of their posts which means they can be used by other applications – like this demo shows.

Stay up to date with your friends’ mapping activities
Mapzen now makes it easier than ever before to keep up to date with updates from your mapping network. Your Dashboard now includes a mapping activity feed from all of your mapping friends – so you know who’s been mapping what, where.

Map faster, worry less with the new Undo/Redo history panel
Mapzen’s undo and redo feature lets you map without having to worry about messing up anyone else’s work. Mistakes can be undone with the click of a button and now you can view a full history of your edits – making it easy to jump back to the exact point before it all went wrong.

Go to Mapzen to try out all the new features for yourself!
Coming Soon – What’s Next for Mapzen?
The next release of Mapzen Beta is just a few weeks away. We’ve been listening to your feedback to make it a better, faster, more fun tool to use. Mapzen Beta Belz includes these top requested features:
- Natural features like lakes, forests or landuse zones and other areas can be tricky to map, with lots of overlapping layers getting in the way of each other. The next release of Mapzen gives mappers control over the appearance of natural features and other landuse areas, making it easier to map in places where lots of different types of landuse areas are required
- Faster loading of Mapzen will let you quickly start mapping sessions and swap between the “View” and “Edit” modes
- Ending line or shape features can be tricky in Mapzen – especially when you want to end a line that you’ve just added a point to. Keyboard controls in the next version of Mapzen will make it easy to end line and shape drawing.
- Some Mac users have experienced problems with the scroll to zoom functions in Mapzen, especially when using an Apple Magic Mouse or MacBook or MacBook Pro touchpad. These problems will be fixed in the next release of Mapzen


If you can’t wait to try out Mapzen Beta Belz you can join the Mapzen Community Panel to have the chance to try out the latest features before they hit the web. Community Panel members get access to unreleased features and give feedback that makes Mapzen better for everyone.
Waiting for a feature that we haven’t talked about?
If you didn’t see the feature you want in the list for Mapzen Beta Belz, don’t worry. The features listed below are planned for the April release of Mapzen. We’d love to hear what you think about them. To provide feedback, comment on this post or send a mail to mapzen@cloudmade.com or check out the Mapzen forums.
- Merging lines is a top requested feature that will appear in the April release of Mapzen
- The presets panel is starting to get a bit crowded with all of the line, point and shape types that can be added. A handy search feature will make finding the right object easy
- Hint strings will help new Mapzen users get started quickly and help existing users get more out of Mapzen
- Mapzen can be slow sometimes – but don’t worry – we’ve got a few tricks up our sleeves that will make mapping a lot faster
Tell us what you think
The Mapzen team want to know what you like and what you don’t like about Mapzen. There are loads of ways to get in touch with us:
- Leave a post in the Mapzen forums
- Report a bug on the Mapzen issue tracker
- Send us a mail to mapzen@cloudmade.com
- Get in touch with Nick, Yuliya or Anton through Mapzen
February 20th, 2010 - Posted by Nick Black in cartography, cloudmade, mapzen, news, openstreetmap | | 1 Comments
Going for Gold at Mobile World Congress

We recently found out that we’ve been selected as a finalist for the Mobile Premier Awards, the equivalent of the Oscars for mobile start-ups at the world’s largest mobile conference, Mobile World Congress.
The awards replace the popular Mobile Monday Peer Awards from which companies such as Fring, Plazes and Opera have risen to great heights.
This year’s awards have some heavy hitting sponsors including: BlackBerry, 02 Limtus, RCR Wireless, Mashable and Tech Crunch and if past year’s events are anything to go by, will attract the most influential movers and shakers of the mobile industry.

It’s by no means a small feat to be selected as a finalist considering the quality of the other 250 start-ups that were initially chosen, including companies such as Layar and Waze.
CloudMade was voted by the Silicon Valley chapter of Mobile Monday as its nomination for the awards. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the chapter for choosing us and plan to follow through on stage with a compelling presentation when we pitch our products and company to leading VC’s, handset makers, operators and press.
We feel that we’ve made it to the finals because of our unique product offerings, including our comprehensive and flexible mapping platform which is the only one available built solely for developers. It empowers mobile and web developers by giving them the freedom to create exactly the type of apps they envisage, and allows handset vendors and operators to take control of their own destiny, by giving them a key control point for their mobile business to make successful business ventures.
Combine this with our innovative mapping tools that allow anyone to easily contribute to OpenStreetMap, and we’re well on the way to the democratization of geo data and expanding access to it.
Good luck to the other start-ups and we look forward to taking to the stage on February 15th in Barcelona. We hope you can join us.
For more information or to register for The Mobile Premier Awards click here
Here’s more about our latest product offerings:
Data Market Place, a market place offering a wide variety of rich, pre-integrated third-party commercial datasets for developers to add to CloudMade maps.
Navi Studio, a suite of tools that make it simple to build fully featured turn-by-turn navigation apps for all major mobile platforms.
iPhone SDK, allows developers to add customized maps, geocoding and routing to iPhone applications with ease.
Mapzen and Mapzen POI Collector, allow anyone to easily contribute to OpenStreetMap and share their experiences via Facebook and Twitter
January 30th, 2010 - Posted by Paul Jarratt in cloudmade, developers, events, geodata, iPhone, mapzen, news | | 0 Comments
Making Mapzen Even Easier and More Fun to Use
Its just over a month since we launched Mapzen – the easy to use OpenStreetMap editor. Since then, the intuitive user interface and focus on ease of use has caught the attention of users and the media (see New Scientist, Mac World, ZDNet and our own Press Zone). Over the holidays we released a set of updates to Mapzen that address many of the comments early users have made. Here’s a summary of the updates that were made in the “Mapzen Beta Uhniv” release, on the 24th December 2009:
Bug fixes
One of the biggest problems reported by some Mapzen users was with saving data – the annoying “Oops – a big error has occurred” problem was our highest priority for this release. We tracked down all of the known causes of this problem and they are now be fixed for good. We also added an automatic reporting system – so Mapzen will tell us if it incurs any problems when saving or editing data. Other bug fixes included more reliable loading of satellite imagery and more reliable rendering of lines – stopping the problems that occasionally made lines disappear.
Giving you more space to work
No-one likes working in a small, constrained screen space, so we increased the size of the work area in Mapzen:

More objects to edit
There are thousands of different types of map features in OpenStreetMap – each often with several variations and combinations. WIth Mapzen we boil all of this choice down to the features and attributes you need for mapping. With each release of Mapzen we’ll add some new map features, modify others and even remove features or attributes that user do not find useful. In this release of Mapzen we added loads of new features, including:
- New icons for a whole load of exciting features including funicular railways, gondolas and drag lifts – just in time for the skiing season
- New icons for boundaries including city walls, fences, hedge lines and gates
- New landuse types including scrub
- New POIs including drinking water and recycling

New features make map editing in ski resorts easy
Another hugely requested feature was clearer one-way arrows for roads, also updated in this release:

Coming up next
The next release of Mapzen will focus on improving usability – particularly the way in which users interact with roads. For example, we know you find it annoying to have to click once to select a node and again to drag it when you are re-shaping a road, so we’ll be updating this behaviour so that to make it easier and quicker for you to drag and re-align roads – something that all the TIGER editors out there spend a lot of time doing.
We’ve also heard that users in areas with a landuse shapes can find it hard to edit roads. To solve this problem we’ll be adding controls that let you turn off landuse – making it far easier to edit roads in these areas. We’ll post some screenshots as soon as we have working internal versions.
What else?
There are lots of exciting features in the queue for Mapzen from speed enhancements to improved hints to merging of ways to easier selection of map features. We’ll be releasing a poll in the next few weeks that will let you choose which features you want to see implemented first – so stay tuned.
In the meantime you can leave feedback about Mapzen or report bugs at the Mapzen Issue Tracker or you can get in touch via email.
January 4th, 2010 - Posted by Nick Black in Uncategorized, cloudmade, mapzen, news, openstreetmap, products | | 4 Comments
Putting the Developer in Charge

Earlier on this year a smart VC, who multiple times has competed successfully against Google, told me that Google is generally willing to act as an “irrational economic player”. It’s willing to destroy value just so others can’t get at it, even if it means destroying value for itself.
Google just announced that it will offer navigation. Navigation has so far captured 70%+ of the $2 billion mapping market. The bad news for established navigation players like Tele Atlas and Navteq is that this will erode the value of navigation, just like the value of maps have been eroded. The good news for those players is that Google has now tipped its hand and shown that it’s willing to compete against the very ecosystem that it has been nurturing over the past couple of years.
Google’s strategy is to leverage maps, including navigation, to extend its current search franchise into local search. We’ve believed from day one of CloudMade that contextual search, using location data and some knowledge about the user (for example which app he/she is using) creates much more valuable CPM/CPC/CPAs. If you’re an advertiser or a merchant, you will pay more per impression if you know someone is a mountain biker and is near the bicycle mega store you own.
Google betting on one-size-fits all model
Google is betting on building a horizontal, local search franchise. I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but please read on, it gets clearer. Google is building a one-size-fits-all set of services around mapping, and will serve the masses with those. Think about Google Maps, Latitude or Earth. They are horizontal one-size-fits-all web apps with little or no segmentation. Everyone uses the same app.
Meanwhile, in the process of building out end-user applications rather than sticking to being a platform player, Google is causing considerable collateral damage. Its move into the territory normally occupied by mobile operators, OEMs and small, medium and large developers is turning the marketplace against itself. The honeymoon is over and the do-no-evil days have ended. Google has declared any monetizable pocket in tech a target, including the key franchises of Apple, Microsoft, the mobile operators and now also mobile application developers. The problem with Google’s approach is, the value is not in horizontal services, but in leveraging the democratizing effect of the app stores to use the 100,000+ vertical apps as a way to divide the market into tiny segments and let them flourish and gain traction.

CloudMade believes vertical apps will inherently nano-segment the market
Most of the impressions that will hit consumers, and most searches that are contextually and location oriented, will occur through vertical apps. Take the mountain biker example. Where will I be more likely to respond if I want to a) navigate my mountain bike though a new trail and b) click on that ad from the bicycle mega store? A horizontal Google app, or a well crafted, vertical app written by a focused developer who understands my special interests? We believe the latter. We believe the mountain biking savvy, app developing expert who knows the hidden trails in his/her community will be better at providing relevance to local mountain bikers.
As I speak to mobile operators and handset manufacturers about the CloudMade business, it’s clear that most of the players understand the value of their immense reach, and want to pick long-term partners with whom they can build a franchise in local search, local advertising and local geo services.
It’s clear that Google’s latest move has served as a lighting rod for clarity in the value chain. Over the past days I have spoken to people throughout the ecosystem. So far, the uncertainty about what Google was doing has actually caused a lot of mobile operators, handset manufacturers and app developers to take a wait-and-see attitude. Now, with Google showing their hand, and making it clear that it’s willing to compete directly with substantial parts of the eco system to get at the local search market, we’re seeing that the wait-and-see is over. With Google choosing to go it alone rather than cooperate with the ecosystem, the ground rules have been laid down, and the competitive landscape is clear.
So what are we doing at CloudMade?
We’re building out our traction in the vertical mobile application area, signing developers within key categories that we believe will drive massive volume. This is a real micro-segmented approach, aimed at driving traffic to thousands of narrow verticals. We’re already seeing this scale.
Local, relevant ads: We’re jumping the learning curve on Location Based Advertising and Sponsored POIs. We’ll shortly be offering developers, mobile operators and handset manufacturers a revenue share on Sponsored POIs and ads that they include in their apps. This is big news to developers, who so far have had to depend on the modest revenues from selling apps at $0.99, $1.99 etc.
Data Marketplace: We’re building a massive marketplace for geo data. In fact, in a few weeks we have our “opening day” at the CloudMade Data Marketplace, the Turkish Bazar from which developers can choose a variety of content that they can mash into their maps. This will result in more app diversity, deeper functionality and even completely new types of vertical apps.
Offering for operators and handset manufacturers: CloudMade has created a super interesting set of propositions for mobile operators and handset manufacturers. We’re doing rev share deals with them where we work side-by-side to build franchises in the local geo spatial arena. We offer them onboard maps (built into their devices) and offboard maps (loaded from our servers), we offer them navigation jointly with our navigation partners and we offer up relationships with our many vertical app developers. For Tier 1, 2 and 3 operators and handset manufacturers this is turning out to be very compelling. The big differentiator is that the operators get to decide what the services look like, they get to brand them and they get to make money from them. That is as opposed to the alternative, which is to take someone else’s services, accept that they are all branded by someone else, who also pockets the ad revenues from them.
We’re focusing on making maps look the way the merchants and developers want them to look. Through CloudMade’s Style Editor anyone, even non-technical people, can produce advanced, custom maps that reflect the brand and identity of their company or their customers company. We’ve found that many, especially those with no yellow in their corporate identity, prefer this to a one-size-fits-all yellow map.
Navigation: We’re continuing to ramp up our work with key players in the turn-by-turn navigation field to increase the scope for navigation solutions. We are building assets to help drive the verticalization of the field, so we see custom navigation for different verticals. Again, CloudMade doesn’t believe in one-size-fits-all. We think different types of navigation will require different types of apps. For example, if I’m hiking in the mountains I don’t care about roads. I want to navigate hiking trails, be directed to places where I can fill my water bottle, and I want to know where the vista points are.
Last, but not least, the most important component of CloudMade’ approach.

Tools, tools, tools: CloudMade is focusing a lot of effort on the tools side. We believe that the best way we can serve the community of mappers and developers is to put all the control in their hands. We’ve demonstrated this through our efforts already, for example with our iPhone libraries. We’re similarly putting the control of Location Based Ads and Sponsored POIs into the hands of developers. Put yourself in the shoes of the vertical app developer. You know better than anyone else how your constituents want to be advertised to, what ads they want (and don’t want) to see and how to place those apps in your app.
Similarly, we’re readying a suite of tools that makes mapping easier, faster and more powerful.

CloudMade’s web based Mapzen tool, and Mapzen POI Collector for iPhone will be available shortly. This suite of tools enables us to further serve the 180,000 person large OpenStreetMap community that is building the most detailed, finely textured and accurate map of the world. The community was founded by the founders of CloudMade, and most members of the CloudMade team are active members of the OpenStreetMap community. The map we’re building in the community is stunning in it’s detail. It’s essentially the Wikipedia of maps. After all, who knows better how to map a community than people who live in the community. Just look at this Stanford example: http://bit.ly/3HJiRh vs. http://bit.ly/1i2N8m.
The Mapzen suite enables us to bridge the needs of app developers, who serve as a proxy for consumers in a given vertical segment, and the mappers, who are members of local communities or specialists in a certain type of mapping (e.g. mountain biking trails). Bridging the consumers needs for maps and the mappers’ desire to create maps that truly reflect their local community will result in mobile and web applications that both feature better maps and be more attractive to users.
So what’s the bottom line?
Over the next twelve months, we will see hundreds of thousands of vertical apps use maps and location services to better serve consumers with data about where they are, where they are going, how they get there and what is surrounding them at their location. We will see mappers collect map data that is highly relevant to local, narrow communities. We will see owners of diverse datasets make their data available though the Data Marketplace. In turn, we will see app developers jump on the opportunity and leverage the map data and Data Marketplace datasets into highly targeted, compelling and enchanting apps. Many will choose to monetize the apps through a combination of app store revenues as well as carefully selected Location Based Advertising and Sponsored POIs.
If you are a developer that has yet to use our platform, get started here: http://bit.ly/Vjdcp (or if you’re an iPhone developer, go here: http://bit.ly/2IRZA3).” If you are with a larger company with a need for a mapping provider that does not compete with you email me at juha@cloudmade.com.
October 30th, 2009 - Posted by Emma Williamson in Uncategorized, cloudmade, developers, iPhone, mapzen, news, products, style editor | | 8 Comments
Calling all OpenStreetMappers! Get Ready for Mapzen – editing and adding POIs just got easier

We’ve just released the Alpha version of Mapzen, our OpenStreetMap community editing tool which lets anyone easily contribute to the map, and are actively recruiting people to help test and provide feedback on it. To be a part of this program please sign up here.
We’re only able to handle a certain number of Alpha testers so if we’re unable to accept you to the program don’t worry, Mapzen Beta will be available for everyone later on this year.
CloudMade has developed Mapzen to help reduce the time it takes to create and edit OpenStreetMap so you can spend more time doing what you like best, mapping. It’s the first community mapping tool that let’s anyone easily contribute to OpenStreetMap.
Here’s a quick overview of some features:
• Intuitive user interface and workflow dramatically reduce editing time
• Graphical menus mean no more searching for obscure tags
• Multi level undo and save modes mean no more fear of ruining the map
• Built with social networks in mind so sharing mapping experiences with Facebook and Twitter friends is simple
And much more….

We’ve also been busy working on Mapzen POI Collector for iPhone which will be in the Apple App Store in a few weeks time, so make sure you sign up here to be informed when it’s available. Adding places of interest (POIs) to OpenStreetMap on location is now a simple 5-click process and there are hundreds of categories to choose from, everything from trees, volcanoes and gas stations to ATMs, vets, picnic spots and aerial way stations, so most interests should be covered. Let us know if there’s something you’re crying out for and we’ll do our best to get it into the next release.
More updates coming soon…
October 7th, 2009 - Posted by Emma Williamson in Uncategorized, cartography, maps, mapzen, news, openstreetmap, products | | 8 Comments
Fly Through Berlin
CloudMade partners, Cartotype have produced this nice animation that shows a fly-through of Berlin. Cartotype produce a range of libraries that render maps across different mobile platforms:
Cartotype have been experimenting with CloudMade’s Vector Server which can stream map data to any connected device where it can be rendered on the fly. There’s a lot of new features planned for the vector server, including multiple outputs formats (XML, JSON, OSM) and a fully featured API that will let you select which parts of the map data are returned to the client. You can see all of the feature requests here.
If you like what you see from Cartotype, you can hear them talk at the State of the Map conference which is being held from the 10th – 12th July 2009 in Amsterdam. Click here for more details.
June 15th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in api, cartography, cloudmade, developers, geodata, news, products | | 0 Comments
Geo Industry Veteran Marc Prioleau Joins CloudMade as CEO
We’re excited to announce that geo industry veteran Marc Prioleau has joined CloudMade as CEO. Marc brings a wealth of industry experience to the CloudMade team, joining us from deCarta, where he was on the team that created a successful geo business serving developers, device manufactures and mobile network operators.

Marc Prioleau, CEO, CloudMade
Just a short month ago, we launched the CloudMade platform to mobile and web developers. Since then we’ve signed up over 2,000 developers who are building a huge variety of applications including navigation, restaurant finders, real-estate portals, social networking sites and enterprise solutions.
For example the British newspaper, The Guardian recently launched a new site built using CloudMade mapping and geo services that lets users add news articles to the map. Users of Apple’s popular App Store can choose from several iPhone applications built using CloudMade’s platform, including the popular Trails hiking and walking application.
With Marc on board, you can expect even more, even bigger things to come from CloudMade.
You can find a full press release here.
March 31st, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in cloudmade, developers, employee, news | | 1 Comments
New OSM db server “smaug” – First Pics!
Let’s cut to the chase – you all want to see pictures of the new OpenStreetMap core database server, and here it is:

It’s got blue LEDs on the front. It must be good.
For the techies amongst us, you’ll probably want to know some juicy specs – 2 Quad Core Intel Xeon E5420 processors, 32 Gigabytes of DDR2 RAM, 10 450Gb 15k SAS disks for the database (and another 2 73Gb disks for the operating system). All in all, a worthy machine to sit at the heart of OpenStreetMap, storing all the geodata and powering all kinds of things. You can see more pictures of the machine as it was being unboxed.
Thanks go of course to everyone who contributed to the recent OpenStreetMap foundation donation drive, and we can’t wait to see it up and running with the next version of the OSM API in a few weeks time. Once Matt has finished deafening everyone in the CloudMade London Office (as he “tries it out”) it’ll be moved to its permanent home in UCL to join the rest of the OSM servers.
March 27th, 2009 - Posted by Andy Allan in news, openstreetmap | | 1 Comments
Product Blog – Two New pre-Alpha APIs from CloudMade
Last week we took the covers off our new CloudMade website – if you haven’t had a look already, head over to CloudMade.com and see for yourself.
We also released two new APIs as pre-Alpha services: theWeb Maps API and the Mobile Maps API. Right now these services are targeted at developers who want to get their hands on the very latest things we have to offer. Both APIs are accessed by directly calling our tile server, though the observant amongst you will probably have noticed slippy maps present on lots of our pages. We’ll be releasing documentation for the slippy map API shortly, so watch this space.

We’re particularly excited about the Mobile Maps API, which gives developers access to a set of tiles which we’ve started to optimize for mobile use. By reducing the tile size to 64×64 pixels (rather than the usual 256×256) and simplifying the cartography we’re keeping tile sizes down to around 2-3kB. This is a first pass and we hope to get the sizes down even more to help mobile applications save on costly bandwidth and enhance user experience.

Because both these services are built on top of OpenStreetMap data you can use them in almost any way you like. Most other online map providers don’t let you use their maps in mobile devices or for real time routing or tracking or outside of their own APIs, for example. We want you to use CloudMade maps for the coolest things you can think of.
If you are itching to play with either the Web or Mobile Maps API, you can request an API key here – I can’t promise that you’ll get access straight away, but we will get back to you as soon as the API is ready. We’ve also got a developers mailing list which you can sign up to here.
Both images based on map data created by OpenStreetMap.org contributors and licensed CCBYSA.
June 4th, 2008 - Posted by Nick Black in api, cloudmade, geodata, news, products, tools | | 0 Comments

