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Steve Coast: Discussing the Future of Maps & Tech with the Founder of OpenStreetMap (& why he thinks maps will disappear) - MBM #30
Minds Behind Maps
How Do You Automate Maps?
You could imagine a world where you take OSM, fix it for some value of fix, add the things that OSM misses, which is for some use cases, a vast amount of stuff. And then you ship that as a product, which is actually what Facebook did and Microsoft would have called in the 90s, embrace, extend, and extinguish. That doesn't mean that humans aren't going to make maps. Botanicists still exist, believe it or not. It's like, but it's these new ways of thinking, new ways of doing things."
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