Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction
by mpol on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:32PM
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Not sure what "open-source upstream" means, but in software, there is the complaint that companies like Google can add a lot of complexity to software projects, which serves Google, but not the classic home user of Linux. That can make it effectively their own corporate project and drown out more casual developers.
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Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction
by Doctor_Fegg on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:21AM
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Ironically OSM is the opposite. The hobbyist mappers do bus routes and admin boundaries and mountain trails and all manner of complex stuff. The corporate mappers are really just interested in the most basic element: drivable roads.
Re:OpenStreetMap charts a controversial new direction
by closeparen on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:36PM
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That much is true - direction and feature set. The accusation that seems weird is that companies would be motivated to make it proprietary just because they use it. At most, it seems like you’d get a niche for “enterprise” distributions with support contracts on the same stuff.