[OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

[Bráulio Bezerra da Silva]

Hmm, an update: some GSoC OSM projects [1] were already accepted.

[1] http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/openstreetmap

2009/11/2 Bráulio Bezerra da Silva <brauliobezerra at gmail.com>

> With OSM data getting more and more quality, I guess it will be a logical
> move to Google (and others) to use it for its needs (for example in cities
> where they have NOTHING mapped). Though, I've never seen anyone discuss
> that. Thinking about this, some questions arise.
>
> Will it ever happen?
>
> Will this be a good thing for people who use routing services?
>
> Will this be a good thing for OSM?
>
> All of that happening, will Google get more involved and help OSM (for
> example, with Google Summer of Code, etc)?
>
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