Integrating OpenStreetMap to your Website
These days it will be hard-pressed to find people who have not used a map. Navigating to places with the help of maps have become an integral part of our daily lives. From day-to-day tasks like navigating to a new restaurant in town to tracking in military and research, maps have a wide variety of usages. One of the biggest hurdles of using maps is managing the underlying geographical and location data accurately. It is an arduous and expensive task that requires a lot of resources. Though there are many providers who source map data, they come with many restrictions on its usage. Premium map providers are costly and have strict licensing policies. To tackle this challenge and to make map data easily available, an entrepreneur named Steve Coast created the OpenStreetMap (OSM) in 2004. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free map of the world. The creation and growth of OSM have been motivated by restrictions on the use or availability of map data across much of the wor...