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[Nick Black]

On 9/20/06, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 20 Sep 2006 00:03, OJW wrote:
> > In case anyone hasn't seen it:
> >
> >
> http://digg.com/tech_news/Move_on_google_maps_a_web_2_0_map_service_is_here
>
> I am surprised at the ignorance of some of the comments, given this is a
> 'techie' site - do they know *nothing* about open source projects? It
> reminds
> me of comments I had about Freemap - people couldn't grasp the idea that
> building open source mapping takes time, but the end result is worth it.



Yes, they sound like 12 years olds.  It reminds me of AOL chatrooms back in
'95.

NIckb

Seriously though it leads credence to a front page in the style of
> Richard's,
> as that highlights the idea of OSM as a project to build free geodata.
>
> Nick
>
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