On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Thomas Davie <tom.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11 Apr 2011, at 16:27, Mikel Maron wrote: > > http://brainoff.com/weblog/2011/04/11/1635 > > > Meh – the great thing about being open is that you get to take the moral > high ground because you're not stopping other people doing what they like. > Why spoil that by trying to stop google doing what they like? > > When Google turns Google MapMaker on in the US and Europe*, it will become much harder to recruit new mappers to our community (that is already quite small). Being passive about this issue means that OSM and its more-open data will eventually be drowned out by Google's much greater marketing might. -Ian * At Google's MapMaker User's summit last week someone said that this would happen (at least in the US) "soon".
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