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Curious to understand just how Telenav will try to make money off of OSM: Will they be the "Red Hat" of OSM? Will they sell "custom add-ons"? What might the
by mwexler 13y ago
Curious to understand just how Telenav will try to make money off of OSM: Will they be the "Red Hat" of OSM? Will they sell "custom add-ons"? What might they do to both benefit the community and make money from usage? Could be great improvements, or could become known as "that day that OSM started to die"...
- yellowbkpk 13y agoTeleNav sells navigations apps to smartphone users. They use OpenStreetMap data for some of those apps (and presumably want to use it in all their apps), so they're interested in seeing OSM prosper.
- officemonkey 13y agoSo they hope to outsource their QC to bring OSM's data up to Navteq? If that's the case, they need to Gameify this pronto, like Duolingo does with crowd-sourced translations.
- yellowbkpk 13y agoNo, they're adding their QC resources to OSM's existing 20k+ monthly active editors and not only improving the map for their own use, but for others as well.