Simon Willison’s Weblog

OpenStreetMap is growing rapidly across all of Africa. Mapping is spreading through local mappers, mappers on vacation, foreign nationals, and remote mapping using satellite imagery. A recent comparison judged that OSM had the most comprehensive coverage of Africa among web mapping services, especially in cities.

— Mikel Maron

# 23rd January 2009, 5:13 pm / africa, mapping, mikel-maron, openstreetmap

[In Mali...] The outcome of this rampant illegal software copying is that Windows is seen as "the first world standard" and any attempt to push a cheaper alternative is strongly resisted. They consider it trying to cheat local people out of getting the same quality of software that is used in the developed world, even though it's a legal way of getting quality software for free.

— Jeremy Allison

# 9th December 2008, 8:03 am / africa, jeremy-allison, linux, mali, open-source, piracy, windows