What is "cloudmade"

CloudMade is a company which produces APIs, rendered maps, and geographic-related services. Unlike many other companies in the same field, CloudMade has focused on using Creative Commons-licensed OpenStreetMap data, and was cofounded by the founder of OpenStreetMap, Steve Coast and long-time OSM contributor Nick Black. Many of its products compete with Google Maps by providing APIs for web sites, applications, and devices to use the rendered map data.

CloudMade is distributed between London (United Kingdom), Kiev ( Ukraine), Stuttgart (Germany) and Menlo Park, CA (United States), and works closely with development partner, Cogniance.