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Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore by Endy on Friday December 13, 2019 @02:48PM (#21784737)
Most people who just want to eat an apple (even an apple a day) don't have bandwidth to pick them. Offer them the option of picking apples at an orchard for free vs. buying a bag of apples at a grocery, and most people will go buy the bag.

The same happens with an OS. Most people don't want a free labor-intensive solution. They want something that just works, runs their software and stays out of the way. People don't want to think about what OS they use.

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Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore by Reason077 on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:14PM (#21785557)
Yes, typical users want a "just works" solution. But yc-news commenters aren't typical users. In the time it takes to post a comment on this forum, anyone here can just fix the problem themselves using OSM's very simple point-and-click editor.

Contrast to Google Maps, where the process of getting a change made can take weeks or months - if the fixes ever show up at all.

There really is a lot of power in having a map of the world that we can all "just edit".

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Re:Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore by Endy on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:31PM (#21794274)
IMO, HN readers can't be the target audience of a mapping product that's being used as a backbone of so many large projects. You have to make it painfully simple and give people a real incentive to do it.
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