[Velocifyer]

I have been suspicious that streetcomplete is funded by intelligence agencies who want to increase the amount of OSINT avalible.

[jack_pp]

any OS INT we contribute can be by definition used by intel agencies. such is the way of the world.

[account42]

That sounds like an actually socially useful use of their budgets.

[Cider9986]

Exactly, this theory is absurd because they would never help society, they could just use Google Maps/ other proprietary data.

By improving OSM, it allows people to use privacy respecting maps like CoMaps which work offline. I'm sure intelligence agencies are pretty happy with the ability to ask Google where any google account is at any time.

Billions of people us Google maps, is that not disturbing that google knows where that many people are?

[Paradigm2020]

But intellegency agencies would like an edge, not that everyone has the same info as them...

[goobatrooba]

Do be useful, can you help us understand why you think this?