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SK53

Tech Crunch have a long and storied history of writing poor articles about . At least they are consistent on OSM's 20th anniversary : techcrunch.com/2024/08/10/one-

* Steve Coast was taking on the , not
* Google Maps was launched in February 2005, 6 months after the OSM domain name was registered.
* OpenStreetMap quickly encompassed a number of other mapping projects. Ably explained in a recent post by @richardf : blog.systemed.net/post/18

TechCrunch · One man decided to take on Google Maps; 20 years later OpenStreetMap is still going strong | TechCrunchOpenStreetMap formally launched on August 9, 2004, meaning the crowdsourced mapping platform is now 20 years of age.
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Michal Migurski 🍉

@SK53 @richardf I keep not-clicking on this article every time it scrolls by because of the ahistorical framing

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SK53

@migurski @richardf I felt I had to read it before tooting. Just in case the headline was misleading, but it wasn't.

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zool

@migurski @SK53 @richardf can't even read the URL as far as "Google Maps" but i'm tempted to click on it just to experience the feels, could be cathartic

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Michal Migurski 🍉

@zool @SK53 @richardf everyone knows that Yahoo! Maps was the Great Satan of 2004 🙃

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InsertUser

@migurski @zool @SK53 @richardf

Didn't they let OSM use their satellite imagery?

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Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 HackW/E@LinuxHotel

@InsertUser yes at the start they were the aerial imagery before bing.

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zool

@migurski @SK53 @richardf it's 2003, and i'm sitting in Tim O'Reilly's office in Sebastopol, California, vociferously explaining how he could persuade MapQuest to get in at the bottom of open collaborative mapping, what it implies, but it's not connecting, it's passing him by

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Michal Migurski 🍉

@zool @SK53 @richardf Mapquest seemed unreceptive at best though they did make an attempt to throw some money around almost ten years later

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boB Rudis 🇺🇦 🇬🇱

@SK53 @richardf @eheisman cld have rly just put a period after "poor articles” tbh.

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