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by Borg3 1049 days ago
Now worries. OSM have open data. Just mirror PBF files. Once something bad happen to OSM itself, you can easly respawn new instance. All building blocks are open source.
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Aachen 1049 days ago
That was also the first thing that came to my mind, but then I realised the same goes for Wikimedia

The power is in the brand/execution, not the code/idea

Either way, I'm glad that it's both open data and open code (Wikipedia: creative commons; OpenStreetMap: open database license; both: some open code license) so that we at least have options, should it be necessary, even if it's an uphill battle to divert attention from a spoiled brand

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matkoniecz 1049 days ago
Sadly, coordination problems are not so easy to solve.

"Just mirror PBF files." is easy, mirroring community is harder.

But, yes it reduces some risks. And enables for example https://www.opengeofiction.net/ and https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ which use OSM stack for fantasy and historical mapping.

And OSM open data is used very widely.

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