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by tombrossman 4117 days ago
This looks pretty but what's in it for me? The service is proprietary - it's a data silo with some very restrictive T&C's.

They are using Open Street Map for some of it and I'm already a happy contributor to that open platform. Maybe I missed it in the press release reprinted by petapixel.com but I don't see what financial incentive contributors have. Maybe I'm out of touch but saying I'm 'empowered' and that this is 'crowdsourced' isn't that interesting.
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jesolem 4117 days ago
As an OSM contributor you might be interested in the fact that every photo is immediately available in the iD editor for everyone to use. (JOSM will happen one day too) The American Red Cross is taking photos on Mapillary for Missing Maps, etc.

As a regular person you get a service for sharing geotagged photos of places, available under CC BY-SA.

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draugadrotten 4117 days ago
This has "waze" written all over it. First you contribute, then the founders get showered in in dollars and gold, and you get nothing.

That said, I've contributed, just because I had nothing better to do with my fancy phone.

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