{"id":719331,"date":"2010-04-19T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/OpenStreetMaps-Now-Has-250-000-Contributors-140142.shtml"},"modified":"2010-04-19T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:04:00","slug":"openstreetmaps-now-has-250000-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/719331","title":{"rendered":"OpenStreetMaps Now Has 250,000 Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/OpenStreetMaps-Now-Has-250-000-Contributors-2.jpg?w=780\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>Mapping the world is an undertaking that even the largest web companies don&rsquo;t treat lightly. It&rsquo;s not exactly an issue of &lsquo;can it be done,&rsquo; but rather &lsquo;is it profitable?&rsquo; Unfortunately, for most of the world, the answer is no. Acquiring mapping data is expensive and time consuming, giving it away for free and making&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/OpenStreetMaps-Now-Has-250-000-Contributors-140142.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mapping the world is an undertaking that even the largest web companies don&rsquo;t treat lightly. It&rsquo;s not exactly an issue of &lsquo;can it be done,&rsquo; but rather &lsquo;is it profitable?&rsquo; Unfortunately, for most of the world, the answer is no. Acquiring mapping data is expensive and time consuming, giving it away for free and making&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-3187","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}