Maps.me started off a a small startup based in Zurich and won a startup competition in 2012 to propel them forward. Fast-forward to today and they’ve since then been acquired by a Russian internet company and continues to useOpenStreetMapas its foundation for their maps. The key behind ...
paulo, sydney, and zurich, they take terabytes of raw satellite imagery, aerial photography, and road map data that google buys from commercial providers, stitch them together, then send them back out as the base maps for google earth and google maps. hanke grew up in cross plains, texas,...