[OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

[Brad Neuhauser]

Maybe stretching, but what about Google driving cars around constantly to
capture Street View images and road/POI data? Ideally, a lot of OSM data is
gathered by people who are already in the area.

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 1:25 PM Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> OSM includes walking and cycling infrastructure thus promoting and
> enabling  sustainable travel options.
>
> Gmaps is primarily a road map.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
> On Tuesday, 25 February 2020, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote:
> > There are many reasons to use OSM over Google Maps but
> > "environmentally friendly" seems to not be one of them.
> >
> > One may try some very indirect things, like that Google Maps
> > is primarily a place to display ads, therefore pushing consumerism,
> > therefore environmentally unfriendly but...
> >
> > Maybe "OSM data is reusable, Google maps data is proprietary and
> > other need to recreate it wasting resources" can be argued to
> > be environment-related.
> >
> > Maybe "OSM data can be used for various purposes, including
> > environment protection" can be argued.
> >
> >
> > Feb 25, 2020, 09:28 by gerry at customercarewords.com:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > I will be giving a series of talks this year at An Event Apart (>
> https://aneventapart.com/> ). The talk title is “World Wide Waste,” and
> will examine the impact digital is having on the environment and proposes
> ways digital can be more environmentally friendly. I’d like to propose
> OpenStreetMap as a more environmentally friendly option than Google Maps.
> Can anyone help me with good arguments?
> > >
> > >
> > > Best
> > >
> > >
> > > Gerry
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > Gerry McGovern +353 87 238 6136 > gerry at customercarewords.com>
>  @gerrymcgovern  www.customercarewords.com
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