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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by WeylandYutani on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:35AM (#37032647)
It's funny Maps has become so crap that I paid 10 euro for OSM.

But I think open street maps has a killer feature that Google doesn't have: the community.

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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by hgsgm on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:41AM (#37033118)
It's not a killer feature if you only use it because Google got crappy.
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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by urbandw311er on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:56AM (#37033242)
Except of course that Google can just freely use the OSM data anyway.
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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by bluGill on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:11PM (#37036366)
Maybe. They have (or have as of 10 years ago when I signed up) a checkmark for I consider this public domain. If you don't check that OSM cannot freely use the data. I only edit OSM so that people can find my house, so I consider it a feature that google can freely use my changes, but not everyone agrees.
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