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Microsoft has allowed the OSM community to trace from Bing aerial imagery for almost 10 years now. That's been a massive benefit to OSM, way more than this dump
by rmc 8y ago
Microsoft has allowed the OSM community to trace from Bing aerial imagery for almost 10 years now. That's been a massive benefit to OSM, way more than this dump of buildings. They should be congratulated and thanked for that contribution.
- Krasnol 8y agoWhy do you assume anyone using this data is not thankful?
- Jonnax 8y agoBecause consumers of the data may not know.
- Krasnol 8y agoI'm sure consumers doesn't know my input there too but I don't care much. I mean...what do you expect? A banner? Money? Those who entered the data from their browser and directly used the bing data do know and I'm sure they appreciate it.
- ddingus 8y agoThere is no need for that assumption. This is just positive reinforcement. Maybe we see more of a good thing.
- chris_wot 8y agoNow this is the sort of way of handling competition I can deal with. Find the data they have locked up and that you don't compete on, but that you need to produce and collect anyway and then release it for anyone to use.