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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Facebook OpenStreetMap Engineering with Saurav Mapatra and Jacob Wasserman
Description: Facebook applications use maps for showing users where to go. These maps can display businesses, roads, and event locations. Understanding the geographical world is also important for performing search queries that take into account a user’s location. For all of these different purposes, Facebook needs up-to-date, reliable mapping data.OpenStreetMap is an open system for accessing mapping data. Anyone can use OpenStreetMap to add maps to their application. The data in OpenStreetMap is crowdsourced by users who submit updates to the OpenStreetMap database. Since anyone can submit data to OpenStreetMap, there is a potential for bad da...