Telenav switches Scout navigation apps to OpenStreetMap, and rebrands Skobbler 4 months after acquisition

Navigation company Telenav has announced that its US-focused Scout app for iPhone is today switching to OpenStreetMap (OSM) from TomTom for all its mapping data. The company says it plans to switch to OSM for the Android incarnation in June, bringing both apps in line with Scout’s companion website, which is already using the crowdsourced mapping service. For the unitiated, OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the world created by the online masses (‘Wikipedia for maps’), and is designed to make it easy for developers to integrate into their own applications. It’s a little bit like Google’s own Map...



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