Let’s face it, you’d think it would be hard for a volunteer open-source project to compete with one of the world’s most affluent technology companies.

No, for once, I’m not talking about OpenOffice.org and a rival product from a monopoly commercial software house.

I’m talking about OpenStreetMap and Google Maps. I was looking at a property search engine this evening and I spotted that as well as their regular Google-based maps, they also have an experimental OpenStreetMap based version. So which is better? You choose:

• Google Maps sample
• OpenStreetMap sample

Kudos to the guys at Nestoria for their use of open source technologies.

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