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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

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How Do You Make Something Simple?

It's incredibly hard to make simple stuff though. Like to go back to computer science, like it feels like a lot of it is like just adding complexity and things like that. I think people are much more comfortable not thinking about things first, or secondly, hoping that they're simple. Michael Creighton wrote about this a lot in a book called Travels: It's very difficult to take a step back and just look and just see.

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