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Shitty cash hungry monopoly like OpenStreetMap? I’m ready to bet Google Maps dying could lead to a huge interest in improving OSM instead of the opposite today

Shitty cash hungry monopoly like OpenStreetMap? I’m ready to bet Google Maps dying could lead to a huge interest in improving OSM instead of the opposite today. Also email is an interoperable standard so I don’t see a monopoly coming soon, it’s not AOL era anymore. Before monopolies there is competition, and if monopolies come then break them. It’s not like it never happened before and “these times it’s different”. Edit: I have nothing against Google but it’s not a charity, if some of their services are now essential and are not adequately provided by private entities then it simple it’s a public service. What would you say if Google was starting a service to give free food? I’m not it’s the big Corp displacing government dystopia future I want.

LatteLazy 6y ago
Do you really think Openstreetmap is an alternative to Google maps? Really? This is our vision for the future? Anyone who spends 5 minutes on there will be begging to give Google their data. We're meant to be improving things, not just reverting to the 1940s approach but with a website to look at the paperwork on...
- emptysongglass 6y ago
  I use OSM all the time in the form of the app, OsmAnd. Fantastic app, gets me where I'm going, has most shops indexed: the few times it didn't I added them myself and benefited everyone. I especially like that, as a cyclist, it always picks the greener path for me to get through Copenhagen. Huge feature over Google Maps for me. I'd really like to see better transit directions. OsmAnd does have them but not stop-by-stop.
- tarsinge 6y ago
  My point is that Google Maps prevents the development of OSM.
dorgo 6y ago
>Also email is an interoperable standard If emails from no-name servers/domains are increasingly dropped/refused (considered spam), is email still interoperable?
- tarsinge 6y ago
  That's not my experience, but if that's the case then one more reason for the break up.

LatteLazy 6y ago

Do you really think Openstreetmap is an alternative to Google maps? Really? This is our vision for the future? Anyone who spends 5 minutes on there will be begging to give Google their data. We're meant to be improving things, not just reverting to the 1940s approach but with a website to look at the paperwork on...

emptysongglass 6y ago
I use OSM all the time in the form of the app, OsmAnd. Fantastic app, gets me where I'm going, has most shops indexed: the few times it didn't I added them myself and benefited everyone. I especially like that, as a cyclist, it always picks the greener path for me to get through Copenhagen. Huge feature over Google Maps for me. I'd really like to see better transit directions. OsmAnd does have them but not stop-by-stop.
tarsinge 6y ago
My point is that Google Maps prevents the development of OSM.

dorgo 6y ago

>Also email is an interoperable standard If emails from no-name servers/domains are increasingly dropped/refused (considered spam), is email still interoperable?

tarsinge 6y ago
That's not my experience, but if that's the case then one more reason for the break up.