Yes, I do no trust FB declarations at all, it FB still refuses to attribute OSM properly and I hope that FB employees will not be elected into OSMF board.
But in this case in FB self-interest is to keep this data available to OSM and I expect that they will continue this. Jun 19, 2020, 18:05 by me-osm-tagg...@keepawayfromfire.co.uk: > It's in Facebooks interest to have OSM be the best it possibly can. > Facebook doesn't want to be dependant on Google for map data, so they > are going to try and commoditise map data to improve competition. > > Google just released Google Maps SDK for Unity, an API for app > developers to make Pokemon Go type games. OSM can't compete on that > kind of ease of development. I think Facebook will come out with > similar APIs to try and stop Google growing it's map data market share. > > This is the iOS vs Android fight, except Google is Apple and Facebook > is Google. Competition is a good thing. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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