The Cost of Free Data

https://www.safegraph.com/blog/comparing-safegraph-and-openstreetmap

by evanbarry • 4 years ago

6 2 4 years ago

If anything, this is a wake-up call to the US OSM community - it has serious corporate backing [1], but the proof - or lack thereof - is in the pudding.

It is impossible to collect address data manually; they should lobby the hell out of local and federal governments to release open address databases that are of importable quality and licence. And institutionalize its maintenance.

It has been done in many European countries and there's a sizable body of experience to draw on.

[1] and its culture seems corporate as well complete with a Slack instance ;]

altruios• 4 years ago

yeah...

safegraph.com touting how good their paid data is.

doesn't contribute to open source...

doesn't want to you to use open source...

wants to be paid for something we should have for free from the government (open data sets should be maintained institutionally - as per our taxes: let our developers have a good data set for roads)...

solving a problem it helps create by being capitalistic: the cause of - and solution to... yeah... no:

we just need better open source data collection as a people...

best to make a game of it: like pokemon go - only for street data capture, people get entertained and people get to build reliable apps... win:win.

The Cost of Free Data

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