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Simon Poole

@zverik and for historically correctness, the myth of the "pure" OSM dev environment, is just that, a myth.

Major parts (if not a majority) of central OSM software infrastructure was originally written by people paid to do so, typically by their then employers. You can only "lose" something if it was yours to start with.

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Ilya Zverev

@simon Exactly! I mentioned this on my russian-lang channel. Cloudmade would be the most obvious example, plus most key things were paid for, e.g. the redaction bot.

SK53

@zverik @simon MapQuest supported Nominatim for several years too, although I think Lovia was doing a lot of work.

Don't neglect the role of the community in innovating though: Wille created OSMCha to deal with some particular problems with edits in Brazil (openstreetmap.org/user/wille/d). HOT Task Manager has antecedents in QualityStreetMap (wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Qu) & OSM Matrix (wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ol. MapCraft also a nice tool in this space.

@zverik @simon MapQuest supported Nominatim for several years too, although I think Lovia was doing a lot of work.

Don't neglect the role of the community in innovating though: Wille created OSMCha to deal with some particular problems with edits in Brazil (openstreetmap.org/user/wille/d). HOT Task Manager has antecedents in QualityStreetMap (wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Qu) & OSM Matrix (wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ol. MapCraft...

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