Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future
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#2I sure hope they’re throwing OSM some cash donations as a thanks.
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#3Does anyone know if Lyft plan to contribute their map corrections back to OSM? They mention other companies doing so in this blog post, but don't make it clear whether or not they, too, intend to.
I'm curious to see how good Lyft Maps is, too. Uber Maps is, frankly, a disaster in my area, frequently suggesting illegal and/or impossible turns. I try to submit map feedback every trip (very hard as a rider, as most forms of available feedback seem to be to punish the driver rather than the platform), and it's still never been fixed. Most drivers seem to use Google Maps or Waze instead and if I see a driver using Uber Maps, I need to watch the trip and suggest several corrections. Ironically, I'm only a few miles from the office where most Uber Maps staff used to work.
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#4> By late 2019, Lorimer and Justin Moore, then the head of engineering, were ready to form a team to “do the impossible” — create a home-grown mapping system.
THE IMPOSSIBLE: A "home-grown" mapping system built on OpenStreetMaps?
Lyft seems to really lack any imagination if _that_ was considered impossible.
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#5Great can someone at Lyft either comment on if they will contribute what they made on top of OSM or if it is even useful to contribute back ? I think the answer is No and this is HN clickbait.
I really want to be wrong.
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#6This is yet another "We found a community project providing us with billions of dollars in free work but don't find it worth the effort to contribute anything back"
Re: Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future
#7> By late 2019, Lorimer and Justin Moore, then the head of engineering, were ready to form a team to “do the impossible” — create a home-grown mapping system. THE IMPOSSIBLE: A "home-grown" mapping system built on OpenStreetMaps? Lyft seems to really lack any imagination if _that_ was considered impossible.
It was impossible a few years ago, when the OSM data wasn't good enough and the cost of acquiring the data themselves was too high.
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#8This is yet another "We found a community project providing us with billions of dollars in free work but don't find it worth the effort to contribute anything back"
I may get downvoted, but if OSM was not fine with this exact situation happening, then they shouldn't license it the way they do.
Nothing seems to indicate so far that they're not fine with the situation so it looks like everyone is happy.
Re: Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future
#9Does anyone know if Lyft plan to contribute their map corrections back to OSM? They mention other companies doing so in this blog post, but don't make it clear whether or not they, too, intend to. I'm curious to see how good Lyft Maps is, too. Uber Maps is, frankly, a disaster in my area, frequently suggesting illegal and/or impossible turns. I try to submit map feedback every trip (very hard as a rider, as most form…
I've submitted a correction for an illegal turn instruction twice on Google maps. No reply. But my other corrections have been accepted.
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#10this is the "Digital Twins" story right here - private corporate walled gardens with total control and feeding off of commons.