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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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How open is this? Can anybody download the data that is collected? Or is this like Waze, which did something similar, then just sold out to Google?
The only thing I want to say is "OpenStreetMap got the FSF award in 2018".
As the same openstreetmap site say it's the wikipedia of maps, run by the community and some corporations like meta, Microsoft and Apple.
And some people, like me, thanks to microg use the data for geocoding and don't rely on google for that.
Its used by Bing and Apple, so they would for sure piss off some people selling out. That being said I have no clue how its run, God pray it isnt as "open" as openai
Edit: nevermind, heres their license, doesn't look too bad
OpenStreetMap has been going for almost 20 years now. It's a very well known open map data platform. Like Wikipedia, anyone can edit OSM map data, and all of the data is freely available for anyone to use.