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Meanwhile in Russia: still no buildings, only streets.
by grishka 5y ago
Meanwhile in Russia: still no buildings, only streets.
- mistrial9 5y agoIt seems that Russia views counting, classifying and categorizing internal infrastructure as hostile, and expressly forbids it; similarly with aerial and satellite imaging. Personally, I understand this bargaining position, but I think the built environment (roads,buildings) ought to be fair-use, ala Openstreetmap. I believe modern Apple Inc. is an egregious example of corporate abuse of commons data, so the right answer for the built infrastructure is to build Openstreetmap worldwide. Oddly, I was quite startled to see libre-search somewhere using Apple map tiles last year, which indicated to me that Apple is using low-cost-to-themselves arrangements to further the total viewership, while conveniently overlooking the aims and goals of FOSS participants.
- judge2020 5y agoApple uses data from Tomtom and OSM: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/maps/legal-en.html https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/maps/legal-en....