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llimllib on Oct 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Maps Open-Source Challenger MapBox Raises $...

Nothing. Mapbox are quite large supporters of OSM; they wrote the iD editor for it.

http://ideditor.com/

_delirium on Oct 16, 2013 [–]

Mapbox also pays Artem Pavlenko, the lead developer of Mapnik [1], which has for a while been the main tile renderer used by OSM. Their interests there align nicely, because Mapnik is also the rendering backend for Mapbox's TileMill software.

[1] http://mapnik.org/

ris on Oct 16, 2013 | [–]

Also Dennis Luxen, developer of OSRM.

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