This makes it a lot more difficult to cock it up compared to a shareholder run company.
Thanks. I'll continue my small contributions then.
If anyone want to help I can recommend StreetComplete. It's a bit like pokemon go, but you'll help improve the map of the world instead. Only in android now I think.
OSM is good people and very much within the FOSS ethos as far as I can tell. Their Humanitarian work is just awesome: https://www.hotosm.org/
Ohhh interesting, just grabbed it on F-droid. I'll be playing around with this for a while.
Downloading now
Oh I should do that, I'm often in new builds and redevelopments, I'd think that's where it's needed most?
I think it's needed everywhere. I can start it wherever I happen to be and find a lot of "quests/tasks" to complete.
Thanks yeah I've downloded it and there are loads of little quests, I'll give it a try
Not really , they use the Open Data Commons Open Database License which means it can be used commercial but they have to release changes under the same license.
Mapbox sells your work for a profit.
OSM is the best kind of Open Source.
It CAN be used in commercial products, but any contributions to OSM from those commercial enterprises is still open, so you end up with commercial users contributing to the open system.
I'm in charge of GIS for a city that uses and contributes to OSM and QGIS.
I don't think so. But people who donated to Mapilary found out it now belongs to Facebook
I'm contributing to openstreetmap because I think there should be a free alternative to Google or Apple maps.
Am I running the risk of having my contributions stolen?
OSM is run by a foundation - https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
This makes it a lot more difficult to cock it up compared to a shareholder run company.
Thanks. I'll continue my small contributions then.
If anyone want to help I can recommend StreetComplete. It's a bit like pokemon go, but you'll help improve the map of the world instead. Only in android now I think.
OSM is good people and very much within the FOSS ethos as far as I can tell. Their Humanitarian work is just awesome: https://www.hotosm.org/
Ohhh interesting, just grabbed it on F-droid. I'll be playing around with this for a while.
Downloading now
Oh I should do that, I'm often in new builds and redevelopments, I'd think that's where it's needed most?
I think it's needed everywhere. I can start it wherever I happen to be and find a lot of "quests/tasks" to complete.
Thanks yeah I've downloded it and there are loads of little quests, I'll give it a try
Not really , they use the Open Data Commons Open Database License which means it can be used commercial but they have to release changes under the same license.
Mapbox sells your work for a profit.
OSM is the best kind of Open Source.
It CAN be used in commercial products, but any contributions to OSM from those commercial enterprises is still open, so you end up with commercial users contributing to the open system.
I'm in charge of GIS for a city that uses and contributes to OSM and QGIS.
I don't think so. But people who donated to Mapilary found out it now belongs to Facebook
Is KartaView better in this respect?
Apple Maps is in part based on openstreetmap https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple