Re: [OSM-talk] (Off topic) Apple hiring OSM contributors in Australia?

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: Why hire *away*? As noted by the OP, this story is indeed completely off-topic, and has nothing to do with OpenStreetMap. Apple's maps team is hiring new staff. To pitch this as some kind of head-hunting attack on OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] (Off topic) Apple hiring OSM contributors in Australia?

2013-02-27 Thread Gregory
Why hire *away*? CloudMade hired lots of OSM Ambassadors in the states. I'm not sure it worked out well for them but some of them are now good OSM friends of mine (and I'm not sure they were OSMers before, or at least not so involved). On 23 February 2013 18:56, Andrew

Re: [OSM-talk] (Off topic) Apple hiring OSM contributors in Australia?

2013-02-23 Thread Andrew
Andrew MacKinnon andrewpmk at gmail.com writes: Just noticed this story on Macrumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/02/22/apple- hiring-maps-ground-truth-data-specialist-in-australia/ Is Apple trying to hire away OSM's top contributors to add data to their proprietary mapping service?