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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:23PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:23PM (#641820)

    The mobile version of Google Maps USED TO let you do that. The feature was REMOVED.
    Google Maps seems to just get crappier.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22 2018, @03:27PM (#641823)

    Google Maps mobile has removed features and gotten crappier over time so I can't 100% confirm that it used to enable route dragging, but I seem to recall that it did.