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OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment (joemorrison.medium.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Good TL;DR.

I'm slightly confused why the community is seeing this as controversial though. Isn't the whole idea that OSM would take over as a dominant atlas database exactly what the project's end goal is? It just has the side effect that tech companies start to use and contribute to their database.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I agree, but I will always be more than a bit apprehensive whenever Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and freaking Facebook are involved. If they make OSM more feature rich so they can compete with Google Maps more successfully: good. However, I am worried that they might pull off some sleazy moves, like for example removing Google's buildings from OSM out of spite. I hope I'm just being paranoid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

will always be more than a bit apprehensive whenever Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and freaking Facebook are involved

A bit unnerving to see the "Advisory Board" (https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board) being populated with some of them