Re:Organic Maps
by acec on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:36AM
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No not trust it google maps either. There is a crossroads that is wrong in Google near my house and it is right in OSM. In fact... I did fix it but I will not report about the error to Google ;-)
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> I did fix it but I will not report about the error to Google
Why not? That seems like a weird stance. Is your desire to hurt Google so strong that you are not willing to help potentially thousands of people?
I am not a Google employee. Why should I work to fix their product? I prefer to help potentially thousands of people by helping a non-profit like openstreemaps
Re:Organic Maps
by matkoniecz on Friday September 01, 2023 @03:17PM
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> Is your desire to hurt Google so strong that you are not willing to help potentially thousands of people?
Not the same person: my time is limited, so I volunteer to fix data only when it is released on open license allowing me and others to use it.
Otherwise I expect to be paid.
In general, I need more than "it will help others" to spend time on something, I am already spending too much time on things like this.
If Google wants to have good updated user-contributed data for free, I hear there's a great open source map they can use ;)