[OSM-talk] New Google Map Maker promotion

[Nick Black]

This is an awesome idea.  I'd like to see the OSM Foundation running
something like this.  Without a co-ordinated effort, Google have a
great chance of winning the hearts and minds of mappers in developing
countries.  Its exactly the same tactic as Microsoft or Oracle
flooding universities with free / cheap versions of their software.

Alternatively the OSM-F could lend some marketing help to Mikel & co
whose Map Kibera initiative no doubt inspired Google's mapping bus.

http://mapkibera.org/

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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently, OSM is lacking a bus:
> http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/mapping-india-on-googles-internet-bus.html
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