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OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the uncharted-territory dept.

islisis writes:

Serge Wroclawski, a long-time contributor to OpenStreetMap, has posted a criticism of the management choices he believes are preventing the OpenStreetMap Foundation from fulfilling its mission (much like the Wikimedia Foundation):

I feel the OpenStreetMap project is currently unable to fulfill that mission due to poor technical decisions, poor political decisions, and a general malaise in the project. I'm going to outline in this article what I think OpenStreetMap has gotten wrong. It's entirely possible that OSM will reform and address the impediments to its success- and I hope it does. We need a Free as in Freedom geographic dataset.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday February 22 2018, @05:15AM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday February 22 2018, @05:15AM (#641639)

    I completely agree. That's a really handy feature.

    The mobile Google Maps also kinda sucks if you have multiple stops on your route; it's not that easy to look at the stops, reorder them, delete one, etc.

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