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by helsinkiandrew 1477 days ago
It's not clear from the article what the 500 people are doing - they could be doing manual data entry or map validation tasks which are made redundant by the new "automated mapmaking platform" built by others (developers/engineers etc).

The saving from those roles could well be going to be reinvested in R&D and product lines.

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It's probably better to outsource manual map updates to OpenStreetMap