It will be interesting to see how effective facebook's rampup of"opensource" OSM infrastructure will be. They have bought other mapping companies, which on th

It will be interesting to see how effective facebook's rampup of"opensource" OSM infrastructure will be. They have bought other mapping companies, which on the surface look like they are able to generate city scale point clouds. Combine those with mapillary's very compelling annotation framework, and the resources to do street sign detection, it looks like Facebook/OSM will be able to dramatically lower the cost to entry for people wanting high quality fully featured maps. This is facebook of course, so it equally turn to shit. But one has to at least hope for a better outcome