Gregory's Server
Tech Crunch have a long and storied history of writing poor articles about #OpenStreetMap. At least they are consistent on OSM's 20th anniversary : https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/10/one-man-decided-to-take-on-google-maps-20-years-later-openstreetmap-is-still-going-strong/
* Steve Coast was taking on the #OrdnanceSurvey, not #GoogleMaps
* Google Maps was launched in February 2005, 6 months after the OSM domain name was registered.
* OpenStreetMap quickly encompassed a number of other #OpenData mapping projects. Ably explained in a recent post by @richardf : https://blog.systemed.net/post/18
Tech Crunch have a long and storied history of writing poor articles about #OpenStreetMap. At least they are consistent on OSM's 20th anniversary : https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/10/one-man-decided-to-take-on-google-maps-20-years-later-openstreetmap-is-still-going-strong/
* Steve Coast was taking on the #OrdnanceSurvey, not #GoogleMaps
* Google Maps was launched in February 2005, 6 months after the OSM domain name was registered.
* OpenStreetMap quickly encompassed a number of other #OpenData mapping...
@SK53 @richardf I keep not-clicking on this article every time it scrolls by because of the ahistorical framing
@SK53 @richardf @eheisman cld have rly just put a period after "poor articles” tbh.