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This is just another badly written article by a third party. As someone else on thread said, hardly the first time a media piece gets OSM wrong.<div><br></div><div>Take a look at facebook’s own words here <a href="https://tech.fb.com/ai-is-supercharging-the-creation-of-maps-around-the-world/">https://tech.fb.com/ai-is-supercharging-the-creation-of-maps-around-the-world/</a><div><br></div><div>I’m sure there’s plenty of phrases in FB’s own post to get worked about, if you’re looking for things to flame Facebook and the entire corporate world about. </div><div><br></div><div>Myself, I like what they’re doing.</div><div><br>Mikel<br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Friday, July 26, 2019, 10:47 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 25.07.19 22:03, Frederik Ramm wrote:<br clear="none">> This press release is on the same level as "Cloudmade's<br clear="none">> OpenStreetMap Project" so many years ago.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In case anyone doubts that -<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2019/07/facebook-ai-is-supercharging-the-creation-of-maps-around-the-world.html" target="_blank">https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2019/07/facebook-ai-is-supercharging-the-creation-of-maps-around-the-world.html</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Recently, Facebook released a statement about its new effort to create<br clear="none">an OpenStreetMap project to not only benefit from mapping data but also<br clear="none">making this platform an open-source navigational source for users."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And the rest of the article is about how Facebook's only purpose is to<br clear="none">bring comfort to people's lives etc.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This is probably normal for corporate PR people, but for me it's just<br clear="none">disgusting.<div class="yqt4780489331" id="yqtfd91158"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Bye<br clear="none">Frederik<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:frederik@remote.org" href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">talk mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
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