Linux Foundation Makes Open Street Maps Great Again

20 thoughts on “Linux Foundation Makes Open Street Maps Great Again”

• I'm big on OSM. I have spent hundreds of happy hours of my unpaid time contributing to it. My OCD works symbiotically with OSM.

• When commercial companies with influence of this magnitude interfere with open source projects, It usually won't end well for the open source community

• Gmaps trash & this new venture is gonna be the same. Don't fall for the okeydoke. They just gonna build off of OSM then try to bury it. Same thing Google does. It got OSM data and try to push it to the public like its their own. Google Earth shows the data source, Gmaps doesn't.

  OSMAnd+ don't lie about addresses. Gmaps was off by 3000 when a life & death problem arose.

• Please, people, make map application „Viking“ better/faster! Its a great map application on the basis, but not very handy and sadly not really usable on a small touch sccreen (Pinephone e.g.). It really needs some polishing (look at osmand)!

• It's not a lot of money tho

• This would be very handy. GIS databases are a pain to parse, having map data that doesn't require endianness backflips would be great.

• Is Google Maps actually better than OSM? Personally, I find OSM to much SIGNIFICANTLY more detailed. And if you find something wrong, you can just correct it yourself, which I like quite a lot.
  On Google Maps you can technically also report wrong data, but… it's weird.

  Granted, it is entirely possible this is a regional thing. I live in Germany – maybe OSM is more detailed in some places than in others?

• i use osm alot so im all for this!

• How about stuff like StreetView?

• I use OpenStreetMap data on day to day basis. This however doesn't look any good to me. If any of those entities has interest in something, it is absolutely terrible for humanity. Did everyone forget the old three Es already?

  points at OSM You, you're OK. points at the megamonster, assembled from Amazon, Meta and Micrososoft This one – real fucking ugly.

• Awesome. So, instead of sharing your whole life with Google, you share it with Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, TomTom, and whoever else sponsors their shared interest in… ehm… data accuracy.

• I'm both an OSM contributor and user. At the moment, I am very unsure what to think about this project, but I think it will have an overall positive effect on open data and will lead to more companies using OSM. We can only hope the Linux Foundation keeps the whole project under control and the big companies don't take over. And yes, from a user perspective, the lack of traffic and public transport information is the biggest flaw of OSM at the moment.

• Brodie in Denmark open streets map is better then google, as they Danish government release all of the street data for the public each month and a Dane has setup a batch job grepping the data(12 Gb) and convert it to rest API requests for open streets map, and google who don't want a open license on they data do not go this.

• 1:39 So if TomTom, a company known for selling good GPSes back when people still used those, originally provided the map data for Apple Maps, why was Apple Maps notoriously shit initially?

• Definitely a step in the right direction but it's a shame about the MIT license. The code should remain open.

• Again? When was OSM ever great before?

  Standalone GPS is still pretty common in parts of the world where smartphones are not.

• Hopefully they can give Google a run for its money… but as a truck driver. Google maps I use. Every day especially satellite view. When I need to get in or out of some place I can see where the entrance or exit is..

  Open street maps sucks…its below f tier compared to Google.hopefully that will change.

• OSM is already really detailed and accurate (at least where I live). The problem is more the website interface and lack of features in Android apps. It is also really easy to contribute to OSM with one of the android apps like StreetComplete.

• I don't think that standalone GPS devices are useless now.
  Yes, they're useless for average person.
  But they can give an advantage for a 18 wheeler drivers for example in europe, since they can get into account a height of a vehicle and I didn't see that option in e.g. Google maps

• I've been using osm for years now and contributing to my local areas. Sadly while it a good alternative to google maps it is not good enough. It's a massive headache to me as I want to get away from google but I need maps so usage of microg is unavoidable. Still waiting for a working Ubuntu Touch/osm combo.

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