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Google maps would only be a net good if the data was available under a free licence. As it is they take data from people that should have gone to a public proje
by globular-toast 2y ago
Google maps would only be a net good if the data was available under a free licence. As it is they take data from people that should have gone to a public project like OpenStreetMap.
- arccy 2y ago"take", these people would never have produced any data if gmaps wasn't there...
- hatthew 2y agoAt one point I contributed quite a bit to google maps, because it was the primary map system I was using at the time. Had I been using an OSM-based system, I would have made contributions there instead.
- arccy 2y agoindeed, osm can't paint itself like a victim, it needs good end products to bring in contributors.
- wbl 2y agoI ran into trouble because Open Topo does not report a stream the 7.5" series does. There's serious data quality issues that can make it not work for some applications.