A journalist emailed me months ago asking if they could ask me some questions about corporate influence in OSM. I said sure, had a nice chat with them. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/openstreetmap-charts-a-controversial-new-direction is the resulting article that came out today. I think it is a factual and balanced article overall and I struggle to understand why people throw disparaging remarks at me on Twitter. I'm quoted saying that corporate mappers don't map for the same reasons as the rest of us - that's obvious right? They get paid, we don't?
http://osm.gryph.de/2019/12/the-diversity-dilemma/ in which I explain how paying people to contribute to OSM deprives them of the real OSM and gives them a low-grade fake instead.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/26/leo-varadkar-laughs-off-johnson-plan-to-make-eu-pay-for-interesting-bridge perhaps we can get Mexico to pay for it.
RT twitter.com/VincentPrivat
En 2019 les gens sont tellement cons qu'ils s'offusquent de voir des étoiles défiler avec le petit easter egg de JOSM à Noël. Alors que les gens de 2018 aimaient bien. Mais où va-t-on sérieusement ? https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/18431 #nofunallowed (translation: JOSM users are complaining about falling stars...)
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