OSM includes walking and cycling infrastructure thus promoting and enabling sustainable travel options.
Gmaps is primarily a road map. Phil (trigpoint) On Tuesday, 25 February 2020, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: > There are many reasons to use OSM over Google Maps but > "environmentally friendly" seems to not be one of them. > > One may try some very indirect things, like that Google Maps > is primarily a place to display ads, therefore pushing consumerism, > therefore environmentally unfriendly but... > > Maybe "OSM data is reusable, Google maps data is proprietary and > other need to recreate it wasting resources" can be argued to > be environment-related. > > Maybe "OSM data can be used for various purposes, including > environment protection" can be argued. > > > Feb 25, 2020, 09:28 by ge...@customercarewords.com: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I will be giving a series of talks this year at An Event Apart (> > > https://aneventapart.com/> ). The talk title is “World Wide Waste,” and > > will examine the impact digital is having on the environment and proposes > > ways digital can be more environmentally friendly. I’d like to propose > > OpenStreetMap as a more environmentally friendly option than Google Maps. > > Can anyone help me with good arguments? > > > > > > Best > > > > > > Gerry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *********************************************************************** > > > > > > Gerry McGovern +353 87 238 6136 > ge...@customercarewords.com> > > @gerrymcgovern www.customercarewords.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
