[OSM-talk] Waze navigation

[Simone Cortesi]

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Isn't this exactly what OSM is, only now as navigation as a startingpoint?
> Looking at the map in my area (the Netherlands), I see OSM some 6 years ago.
>
> It seems all so superfluous to me, I don't see the point. Why not make a
> navigation app based on OSM? There are several already.
>

simply put: money.

they want to sell the data. their map data is closed data. they sell
traffic data collected by the users, to their clients.

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-S
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