Re:The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s ma...
by rmc on Saturday March 01, 2014 @10:51AM
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Welcome to "Not-the-USA". You may find the big US tech companies don't care nearly as much about here.
Re:The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s ma...
by oscargrouch on Saturday March 01, 2014 @12:43PM
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It's the modern version of the Roman/Barbarian dichotomy
Re:The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s ma...
by sirkneeland on Sunday March 02, 2014 @09:35PM
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Evidently you've never been to China then...
Re:The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s ma...
by davidw on Saturday March 01, 2014 @09:47AM
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Bratislava? Clicking on his link, I get something that looks like a suburb of Vienna.
Re:The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s ma...
by cromwellian on Saturday March 01, 2014 @01:40PM
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Ever notice why you don't see Street View in China, or some Euro-areas? Some of it is probably regulation. Apple was recently denied overflight rights on some areas in Germany IIRC to do 3D mapping.
Do you have any ideas why? Did google simply deem it not profitable enough to send their camera-vans round bratislava, or are there particular reasons that make it more expensive there (regulations of some kind, a fuck-tonne of bureaucracy to get permission?)