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minus-squaremichellinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 years agoThey also bought Mapillary – the idea of people thinking they’re helping make Open Street Map better but ending up benefiting Facebook is a bit… icky https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/facebook-buys-mapillary-threatens-google-apples-map-lead-2020-06-22
minus-squaremichellinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 years agoyeah, when I first tried OsmAnd I think Mapillary was recommended for contributing street view images. Disappointed OSC is also not open source … especially despite the name. Ugh “Open” is such an overloaded term.
minus-squaremichellinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 years agooh boy, and they’re still not on F-Droid after the task is open for years https://github.com/openstreetcam/android/issues/8
They also bought Mapillary – the idea of people thinking they’re helping make Open Street Map better but ending up benefiting Facebook is a bit… icky
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/facebook-buys-mapillary-threatens-google-apples-map-lead-2020-06-22
Is OSM related to Mapillary?
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yeah, when I first tried OsmAnd I think Mapillary was recommended for contributing street view images. Disappointed OSC is also not open source … especially despite the name. Ugh “Open” is such an overloaded term.
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oh boy, and they’re still not on F-Droid after the task is open for years https://github.com/openstreetcam/android/issues/8