[OSM-talk] digg

[David Sheldon]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:27:00AM +0100, Nick Black wrote:
> On 9/20/06, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
> >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
> 
> Yes, they sound like 12 years olds.  It reminds me of AOL chatrooms back in
> '95.

The problem was that whoever dugg it in the first place billed it as a
"Web 2.0 Google maps killer", which isn't at all accurate, and will not
be for a good 5 years. Given the wrong expectations I can see why they
were disappointed.


David

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