Founder of OpenStreetMap goes to work at Microsoft, and OSM gets access to Bing satellite images

Founder of OpenStreetMap, Steve Coast , who left CloudMade in October, of which he was one of the founders, will work at Bing Mobile in Seattle as Principal Architect.

But the other news is awesome. Bing will give the OpenStreetMap community access to its satellite images that can be traced in the editor, therefore, it is worth waiting for further improvement in the quality of OpenStreetMap. Earlier, in 2006, Yahoo! It was a big break then. In 2009, Cosmosnimki website opened its data .

It also reported that Microsoft is developing a tool for editing OpenStreetMap.
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Details:
• Bing engages open maps community
• OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast joins Bing
• I'm working at Microsoft and we're donating imagery to OpenStreetMap!
• OSM forum thread
• Microsoft provides its data OpenStreetMap
• Microsoft gives the right to use their images for mapping in the project OpenStreetMap
UPD : That's the actual resolution .