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This issue is rapidly coming to a close. The disruption of the mapping companies (and sovereign mapping efforts) is going power law now because of mobile device
by andrewljohnson 12y ago
This issue is rapidly coming to a close. The disruption of the mapping companies (and sovereign mapping efforts) is going power law now because of mobile devices.
Five years ago, www.OpenStreetMap.com started getting comparable to commercial maps in many places. And we have not even entered the golden age of OSM, when all of these sensor-laden devices we carry will be automatically feeding the map updates and corrections.
Open data will be the best for nearly all applications on a 20-year timeframe. Google, TomTom, Russia, etc will not be able to make money on the actual map data.