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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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OpenStreetMap - What's New?

In the beginning, OpenStreetMap was like this horrible Java project with XMLRPC that evolved into the thing that you see today. There's proposals inside OpenStreetMap right now to change the data model. Back when IRC was a thing, another piece of ancient history. What is IRC? So there was a time before Slack,. Let's put it that way.IRC was like Slack, except there were no pictures and there was no history. And it was like IRC was like a terrible version of Slack. How about that?

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