On: Google Maps Open-Source Challenger MapBox Raises $10M From Foundry Group

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Mapbox also pays Artem Pavlenko, the lead developer of Mapnik [1], which has for a while been the main tile renderer used by OSM. Their interests there align nicely, because Mapnik is also the rendering backend for Mapbox's TileMill software.

[1] http://mapnik.org/

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Also Dennis Luxen, developer of OSRM.