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veen  ·  4005 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap

The article is more about how it should be than about how it is. There is no doubt about OSM being shittier, and thus having trouble competing, it's just that the dominance over place shouldn't belong to a company. What we (the world) needs is a better OSM or an OSM-esque service that is better or equal to GMaps. The latter is practically impossible, so OSM is the best we've got.