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How awesome would it be if all the big players contributed their effort to one open source platform. Much like how WC3 works. Everyone would benefit from the wo
by Achshar 11y ago
How awesome would it be if all the big players contributed their effort to one open source platform. Much like how WC3 works. Everyone would benefit from the work they do and they can instead compete on the features or the front end they provide to their users. If google moves their data to openstreetmap then everyone stays up to date including google.
- jfoster 11y agoThe optimist in me says that this announcement is prelude to Google opening up their map data like you describe. Probably not, though.
- rmc 11y agoOSM will eventually overtake Google Maps and others, so I predict GMaps will eventually use OSM. Importing GMaps data into OSM would be a programming nightmare, and is basically never going to happen. Trying to merge those 2 databases! Yikes!
- Piskvorrr 11y agoProgramming would be the lesser of the nightmares involved: merging whatever n databases that Google has (licensed under something, only Google knows what), with ODbL-licensed OSM data would be the real nightmare. Opening closed data is always a pain.
- rmc 11y agoLicencing can be solved by the correct person in authority signing a bit of paper. Merging millions of roads in OSM with millions in GMaps?
- Piskvorrr 11y agoThat's the programmers' equivalent of "any matter programming can be solved by a smart person typing on a computer for a little while, there's nothing to it." That said, I do acknowledge that merging two global datasets would be a nightmare.