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I’m the Mozart of Mappy Think Pieces

In the US, I use AllTrails for hiking, which I think is built on Mapbox. Hiking, hunting, fishing, running, biking—all interesting examples of niche uses for maps that naturally le…

Thanks for the thoughtful response! I don’t have anything interesting to add. I suspect you’re right!

What’s up HN?! Always fun to find an article of mine on here. What I’ve learned so far: I’ve underestimated the important of their place data to the rest of the search apparatus, a…

how would you prefer that sentence be written?

Allow me to be at your service: you are a grammar nazi

Great point. Are there any bootstrapped $1B+ open core companies? There are a surprising number of proprietary ones (e.g. Esri, Mailchimp, etc.)

I'm not super familiar with AGPL and how it might address this issue, but I would love to be enlightened.

Hi John--thanks for sharing these links. I do wonder if there is a fundamental difference between applications and infrastructure. Maybe it's the fact that applications tend to inv…

Also--thanks for going on the record. You are right that you might be criticized in the future by nit-pickers, but it's much more satisfying to take public stances and find out wha…

Thanks, those are great examples. I've considered writing about Mattermost before, as I think it's a fascinating pattern that I haven't seen much elsewhere. Attack an existing, hig…

I like this article from 2014 that touches on some of the same great points you're making here: https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-wa...

I wrote it last night; I didn't have time to research every "open core" company I could think of to figure out a chronology of their licensing strategy. I decided to publish it bas…

You might be interested in Tidelift https://www.tidelift.com/

I'm curious about this too; I'd love some counter-examples and that was a big reason for me taking the rather arrogant stance of claiming "cloud killed open core." I selfishly want…

Interesting, I wasn't aware of this! I'm sure my colleagues on the Cicero team are, though.

Yes, via Mapbox's partnership with Unity https://www.mapbox.com/unity

They made an educated guess—-and they were right.

lol, you should make one! That might be nice for people who feel similarly.

Not a nitpick at all--interesting observation. Can you think of a better metric by which to measure contributions? (I'm truly asking out of ignorance)

Hello, HN. On the rare occasion my writing has appeared on the front page, the tone of some anonymous commenters has left me feeling indignant. Last time, someone called me a dog. …

Ah ha! Thanks, I will make a note of it.

Thanks for the feedback, I updated it.

The original title was "WTF is Happening to OpenStreetMap" but I decided it was too clickbait-y. Interesting to learn that I used a uniquely American idiom--didn't realize that.