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Thank you :-) I wholeheartedly agree with you, and I'm sad not seeing it reported more often. I consider that Google Maps being free stagnated the maps market,
by phh 5y ago
Thank you :-) I wholeheartedly agree with you, and I'm sad not seeing it reported more often.
I consider that Google Maps being free stagnated the maps market, and stopped any innovation from happening. Often when I say this, I get "But OpenStreetMap". When only volunteers can compete, that's a definite proof something's wrong.
(though arguably Google Maps did improve a bit over time, while gmail really didn't at all)
- chippy 5y agoIt's worth pointing out that OpenStreetMap has Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook and many other corporate contributors and they are contributing huge amounts of data, all the time, everywhere. "Apple Maps, is by far the most prolific current corporate editor and was responsible for almost 80% of all edits to pre-existing roads in 2018." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/openstreetmap-charts-a-controversial-new-direction https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/openstree... https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jennings%20Anderson/diary/396271 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jennings%20Anderson/diary... Openstreetmap has never been volunteer only, but to be fair its only in the last decade that we've seen this change.
- Piskvorrr 5y agoThis bandwagon only happened because OSM gained traction, sometime in the 2010s. Sure, popularity breeds more popularity, afterwards. Even for all this, the biggest single event that boosted interest in OSM was, ironically, Google imposing far stricter gratis limits on its Maps, a few years back (2018, IIRC?)