How Google Could Collapse

Re:How Google Could Collapse by phicoh on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:20AM (#15088892)

If there is a choice between having to watch annoying ads and not having those details, then I go for the more basic system that is ad free. (I do use openstreetmap for 99% for my navigation, mostly because I care about open navigation systems)

No doubt, real time traffic information can be developed for openstreetmap. But if and when it happens depends on where others drop the ball.

For example, current navigation systems built into cars tend to be completely out of date and mostly unsupported long before the car itself is end of life. So this is an area where openstreetmap might take over.

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Re:How Google Could Collapse by icebraining on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:43AM (#15089595)

OSM actually had ads way before Google Maps: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappam

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Re:How Google Could Collapse by rmc on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:43AM (#15090027)

I don't think you can compare the ad tracking that Google does now, and what the OSM website used to do years ago. That wiki page is almost 10 years old, with the website mentioned (mappam.com) no longer working.

Though since OSM predates Google Maps, it makes sense that OSM would have another first :P

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Re:How Google Could Collapse by sametmax on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:59AM (#15089331)

You are on HN. You are not a basic consumer. Selective bias at his best.

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