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The data is way more valuable than the codebase. Being able to display a bunch of image tiles is cool, but not a mysterious unsolved problem.

• ChatGTP 4y ago
  Why doesn’t Google open source it then?
  • kulikalov 4y ago
    Open sourcing something requires extra work.
    • ChatGTP 4y ago
      Open up their whole code base for research purposes?
      • kulikalov 4y ago
        It's a huge endeavour, because the company would have to convince their stakeholders that this is not harmful for the company competitive advantage. Try to convince your company executives to opensource their code. If it's easy - then share your reasoning, maybe the world will listen, but most likely not, as secrecy is generally perceived as competitive advantage.