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Can you name a few usecases where you would pay them? Doesn#t have to include your own.
We build a data store for municipal governments, we have a very light weight data viz tool that allows municipal workers to view the data on a map: http://john.je/mzHm
Zero mentions of OpenStreetMap in that story. Can't be surprised I guess.
There are zero mentions of any other open source project too. The good news is that having a commercial platform on OpenStreetMaps is a good thing (tm) - they are driving a lot of improvements to the dataset and the licensing on it means that they have to as they improve it. That's a good thing in my book, but yes, all of this investment would be impossible without OSM.
They have huge power to push their own vision in terms of data and tags based on their money.
There are many other commercial providers based on OSM's many possibilities. Mapbox have great marketing.
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There are zero mentions of any other open source project too. The good news is that having a commercial platform on OpenStreetMaps is a good thing (tm) - they are driving a lot of improvements to the dataset and the licensing on it means that they have to as they improve it. That's a good thing in my book, but yes, all of this investment would be impossible without OSM.
They are also driving a lot of crappy contributions. They have huge power to push their own vision in terms of data and tags based on their money. There are many other commercial providers based on OSM's many possibilities. Mapbox have great marketing.
So how will Mapbox fill the $164M dept of required "growth".
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We build a data store for municipal governments, we have a very light weight data viz tool that allows municipal workers to view the data on a map: http://john.je/mzHm
And why didn't you do it in an open standard data format and just present it on Google Maps?
Congrats to the Mapbox guys. Always looked like a cool team. However personally I'm not sure it's a business case that will survive the time. But doesn't matter, with that kind of investment and their current track record they probably live 10+ years, which is well enough in times like these.
Congrats to the Mapbox guys. Always looked like a cool team. However personally I'm not sure it's a business case that will survive the time. But doesn't matter, with that kind of investment and their current track record they probably live 10+ years, which is well enough in times like these.