
History of Science & Technology Q&A (April 20, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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The Rise and Fall of Crowdsourced Maps
OpenStreetMap was a crowdsourced project to just map the world. A tremendously successful project certainly helped by GPS's came in and people could start uploading things from GPS's. I think it also helps that in a geographic setting, somebody can decide, I really want to see the maps be right for Costa Rica. And I'm going to make, really put an effort into making that happen.
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