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Re:Google Maps: Bird Mode by black-tea on Sunday February 24, 2019 @04:07AM (#19237830)
Yeah, that was great.

Bing also allowed OpenStreetMap to use its aerial imagery for tracing. This helped OSM a lot!

Google, on the other hand, asks users to help them with their proprietary data with no compensation.

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Re:Google Maps: Bird Mode by rmc on Sunday February 24, 2019 @10:47AM (#19238988)
Before Bing, Yahoo allowed OSM to trace.
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Re:Google Maps: Bird Mode by Piskvorrr on Sunday February 24, 2019 @11:28AM (#19239180)
And others followed suit later, e.g. DigitalGlobe
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Re:Google Maps: Bird Mode by anticensor on Sunday February 24, 2019 @04:48AM (#19237933)
If I recall correctly, founder of OpenStreetMap worked at Microsoft at the time.
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