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Saturday, June 28

Is this going to become Millions(or more? can anybody estimate?) worth charity?

Google unveiled Google Mapmaker:
What the community think:
  • Jane McEntegart said, “you’re using it, you create it”.
  • Google Want to be TeleAtlas : OpenGeoData
  • Map communities and "openness"
    paulytron says:
    "The global economic/societal upside of this trend is that it allows new forms of businesses and applications to flourish on top of these more accessible and open (and yes, lower cost) commodity building blocks (many, many enterprises are taking advantage of the Linux stack for example), but the downside is that local business/corporate dislocations can and do occur. Some die. Some adapt (for example the IBM of today little resembles the IBM of 15 years ago).

    I think it was the economist Joseph Schumpeter who deemed this process “creative destruction”, which I’d further note most often tends to be associated with the dynamics of capitalism…"
  • Google Map Maker: Unleash your inner cartographer By Stephen Shankland
  • Google Maps Cheaps out with MapMaker by Jordan McCollum
Snippet:
Hmm, now you don’t need any sixth sense to see
small/medium GIS companies’ all over the world
look like spectators at Wimbledon?

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