Last week, Craigslist added OpenStreetMap data to its apartment listings, providing some much-needed geographic context to its site. Craigslist is notoriously conservative with respect to its design and user interface, but the site appears to have capitulated to pressure brought about by the likes of PadMapper and others that are desperately trying to improve upon Craigslist’s massive classified ads service.
With the addition of OpenStreetMap to one of the most heavily-trafficked sites in the United States, it appears that crowdsourced geographic data has arrived. Craigslist’s adoption, of course, comes just months after Foursquare, Wikipedia, and Apple all joined the OpenStreetMap party.
Many of those sites likely switched away from Google Maps due to the company's increased API usage fees announced last year, which then dropped by 75 percent as of June 2012. Still, as a result, the UK-based foundation behind OpenStreetMap says that as of July 2012, the group now has 650,000 registered users on the site. It's hitting new heights with the amount of map data being generated on a global scale daily.
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