The main developer is based in Switzerland.
Re:Apache Baremaps: online maps toolkit
by makeitdouble on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:06PM
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Point taken. Western Europe is already a pretty big difference in many respects (I guess that also explains Lausanne as the default position)
As long as the core developpers of the new platform live and work on the US west coast, any issue non relevant to the US will be a second class citizen, mostly dealt with after the product is deemed stable.
The same way OpenAI operates in english first and other language systems will be improved "later".
It's not a jab on the devs, I realistically can't see any other approach. Just another angle where there's no free lunch and more investment is needed building systems that aren't US first if we care about non-US needs being met in a timely manner.