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Yeah, that was great. Bing also allowed OpenStreetMap to use its aerial imagery for tracing. This helped OSM a lot! Google, on the other hand, asks users to h

Yeah, that was great. Bing also allowed OpenStreetMap to use its aerial imagery for tracing. This helped OSM a lot! Google, on the other hand, asks users to help them with their proprietary data with no compensation.

anticensor 8y ago
If I recall correctly, founder of OpenStreetMap worked at Microsoft at the time.
rmc 8y ago
Before Bing, Yahoo allowed OSM to trace.
- Piskvorrr 8y ago
  And others followed suit later, e.g. DigitalGlobe