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0 pointsmolmalo13y ago0 comments

Or... Google could open source their software, leverage the thousands of volunteers and let a giant leap be made by both, their own projects and OSM-related ones.

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rmc13y ago· 1 in thread

Google could let OSM users trace from their aerial imagery or from their street view data. That would be a massive boost to OSM. Microsoft let OSM trace from aerial.

beej7113y ago

In certain cases the Bing data is better, and in most, I think it's on par for my region (Northern California). Half of the Sierra in the newest Google images is snow-covered... not so useful.

But you're right—more would be better. I'm a little surprised MS went for it, but I doubt Google will.

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