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Do you have a blog or a Twitter account?: We have a blog or you can follow us on Twitter.
What is OpenStreetMap?: OpenStreetMap is an online community of people like you who are making a free map of the world. You can find out more about OpenStreetMap on our about page.
Is CloudMade part of OpenStreetMap?: No. CloudMade is an independent company. Lots of the people who work at CloudMade are also very active within OpenStreetMap. We support OpenStreetMap in a few different ways like hosting developer events, mapping parties, sponsoring conferences and running a grants scheme.
Is anyone allowed to sell and make money from OpenStreetMap?: All of the data in OpenStreetMap is licensed for use by the individual contributors under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 License. The terms of the license allow anyone to re-use the data in any way, so long as they give appropriate attribution. This includes the right to re-sell the data, so yes, anyone can make money from OpenStreetMap.
Isn't that against the spirit of the project?: This is not against the spirit of the project. OpenStreetMap was founded because most maps are not free and because most map data is controlled in a way that blocks innovation and creativity. By making OSM data available to people through our APIs and by supporting the OSM project in other ways, we want to help make OSM data even more accessible and help more people do unexpected and wonderful things with the data.
How often do you update your maps and services from OpenStreetMap?: We update Navi Studio every 24 hours and update our map tiles and other services once a week.
Where do you host your servers?: Our servers are hosted inside Amazon's EC2 service, which lets us rapidly scale to meet your needs.
What kind of attribution and copyright notices should I provide when I use your maps on my website?: If you use our maps via the Web Maps API API a copyright and attribution notice will appear in the bottom right hand corner of the window which says “© 2009 CloudMade – Map data CCBYSA 2009 OpenStreetMap.org contributors – Terms of Use”. You must show this attribution whenever you access our map tiles. If you are using a client such as OpenLayers to display our tiles you must insert the same attribution, with links, in a place that is clearly visible to people visiting your site.
What kind of attribution and copyright notices should I provide when I use your maps in a mobile application?: If you use our maps from a mobile application like a J2ME or Symbian you still need to include attribution and copyright notices. You should include the following information somewhere in the application where it can be easily accessed, such as a “Help” or “About” screen or on a splash screen – “© 2009 CloudMade – Map data CCBYSA 2009 OpenStreetMap.org contributors – Terms of Use”. Wherever possible you should also include links to CloudMade.com, the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0 license page, OpenStreetMap.org and to the Terms of Use for the API you are using to display maps tiles.
Are you guys hiring?: We always want to hear from talented, interesting people who want to help us create the greatest map the world has ever seen. For job opportunities, take a look at the careers page.
Should I mention CloudMade attribution in my application if I don’t use CloudMade map (tiles), but some other separate service (for example, geocoding): Yes, please add CloudMade attribution to info screen or about page or something like this.

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