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Re:OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble by maxerickson on Friday February 16, 2018 @08:07PM (#16398159)
If you hand alltheplaces your data, people ingesting alltheplaces will have your data.

I was suggesting it as an alternative open distribution channel that was less concerned with details.

Re:OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble by yellowbkpk on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:45AM (#16401147)
Hello. I am the creator of alltheplaces and Max is absolutely correct. Alltheplaces is a bunch of scrapers right now because it was the fastest way to get the data, but if you have data in a machine readable format already then I don't have to scrape it. I can just download your data file and distribute it to whomever wants to use it (people interested in importing to OSM, geocoders/search engines, etc.).