[OSM-talk] Google Hiring 300 Temps to Fix Map Errors

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Fri May 21 23:36:38 BST 2010


On 22 May 2010 01:50, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/google_hiring_300_temp_workers_in_kirkland_to_pinpoint_bugs_in_google_maps.html
> Anyone care to come up with a press release that says something like
> "OpenStreetMap volunteers, numbering in the 10s of thousands, fixing a free
> map for free."

Number aren't the best angle imho, wouldn't it be better to point out
the fact how OSM is working much better at crowd sourcing because
people can take their data back out of the system, rather than working
for free for google?




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