2009/12/18 John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>: > 2009/12/18 Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com>: >> Aw c'mon, Google Maps doesn't "giv[e] anything away of real worth to >> anyone"? Tell that to the millions of people who use it on a daily basis. A >> high quality, high performance, extremely reliable mapping platform. > > That is one aspect of maps, but not the only aspect. The real worth is > in the data, by hoarding they limit what you can do with the > information underlying the tiles. > >> We all have ideological reasons for preferring OSM, but let's not kid >> ourselves: Google has a great product which they give away for free. > > Erm lets not kid ourselves, they don't give it away, they use it to > push advertising. The only revenue stream Google has been truly > successful at is pulling in advertising dollars. >
Oh and your comments only apply to individuals, it costs a lot of money to license google tech for biz purposes, same can't be said for OSM... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
