OpenStreetMap: Difference between revisions

 
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== Backend ==
{{Cquote|Earlier this year, in April, John Krumm from Microsoft Research, the editor of IEEE Pervasive Computing commissioned me to write a paper about OpenStreetMap for the magazine. It went through the magazine peer review process, and it is part of a set of articles in the October-December issue of the magazine that are dedicated to aspects of user-generated content.|||Muki Haklay (2008) "[https://povesham.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/openstreetmap-user-generated-street-maps-ieee-pervasive-computing-paper/ OpenStreetMap: User-Generated Street Maps – IEEE Pervasive Computing paper]"}}}
 
{{Cquote|At the heart of OSM's technical infrastructure lies the central database holding the live data, which is implemented in MySQL. The database schema is designed to support wiki behaviors, such as versioning and rollbacks, and keeps copies of modified or deleted features indefinitely.<br><br>