[OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

[Floris Looijesteijn]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
> On 04/04/2012 04:24, Russ Nelson wrote:
>>
>> Pieren writes:
>>  >  Where is the truth here ? Is the "big support and big money" the
>>  >  access of Bing aerial imagery ? Is that all ?
>>
>> Hey, that's enough for me. I LOVES the Bing aerial imagery. Microsoft
>> is welcome to take all the credit for helping us that they want to
>> take.
>>
>
> +1 to that. There's just one thing that is really important that crowd
> sourcing has difficulty in providing and that is extensive, easy to use
> aerial imagery.

Let's not forget about Yahoo imagery!

I always thought the Bing imagery deal was just something Steve negotiated so
he could get moral support from the OSM community for moving to Microsoft.

Greets,
Floris Looijesteijn