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Reading this sound very promising, but i can't stop thinking "Where is the catch?". I would love to trust this project and believe in the good, but looking at t

Reading this sound very promising, but i can't stop thinking "Where is the catch?". I would love to trust this project and believe in the good, but looking at the companies that are overture members doesn't help at all.

SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
The catch as I can see it is with the complexity and issues of combining OSM with a bunch of other data sources. This is what Apple used to do before shipping their own maps. Most of us remember some of the highly publicized issues that were associated with that. I also noticed that Apple, who is (was?) also a heavy OSM consumer, is conspicuously missing from this list.
- astrange 4y ago
  Apple uses OSM in some countries (mainly “global south” like Africa). OSM maps are superior to the new maps in some places like Australia, although maybe in irrelevant ways - there’s not really value in having every single building drawn on the map.
- habi 4y ago
  > I also noticed that Apple, who is (was?) also a heavy OSM consumer, is conspicuously missing from this list. Apple is also a heavy contributor to OSM: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Apple https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activi...
luma 4y ago
I think the catch is simply that the maintainers of OSM are difficult to work with if you’re Apple et al. They wanted a better governance model so they went and made one that they can live with.