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I am a very active OSM contributor. I am very pleased that corporations are helping us with the map. It can sometimes be annoying when somebody who isn't from
by blendergeek 6y ago
I am a very active OSM contributor.
I am very pleased that corporations are helping us with the map. It can sometimes be annoying when somebody who isn't from the area messes some complicated intersection based on old satellite imagery. It is awesome when a corporation adds large numbers of features that I never would have added. More contributions is a net positive.
The only concern I have is that corporations may seek to prevent OSMF from offering competing map services. Mapbox might, for example, seek to hamstring the openstreetmap.org tile server in order to push people to their commercial offering. This is largely theoretical but is a large concern of mine. As long as core technologies are Free/Open Source, we can always pack up and fork if it becomes problematic.
- maxerickson 6y agoThe status quo is (roughly) to resist adding capacity to the osm.org servers anyway. Not so much to push people to commercial offerings, more to avoid growing the resources required to operate the foundation and site.