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If you’ve ever tried to get online directions to your friend’s fresh housing development, it’s a cursed problem. Well Steve Coast wants to put the cartographer back in car. OpenStreetMap is enabling all of us to plug inidivually-collected GPS data traces onto a full world map.

This is a fantastic usage of the wiki concept and it’s the first reason I’ve seen to throw my money down on a GPS device. Obviously I’d prefer my mobile phone to do this work for me, but until the telcos let me I’ll velcro a a Garmen device to my dashboard.