9th August 2004 is OpenStreetMap’s official birthday, but 0-year olds don’t do very much. It took a few years before we learned how to walk.
This is good to remember. Still, 3 years to get to a rough outline of what exists today, with volunteers, is pretty quick!
The assessment of the internet status quo is overly bleak, IMO. I don’t believe open innovation at the scale of OSM is impossible today (looking at ActivityPub, for example).
This is good to remember. Still, 3 years to get to a rough outline of what exists today, with volunteers, is pretty quick!
The assessment of the internet status quo is overly bleak, IMO. I don’t believe open innovation at the scale of OSM is impossible today (looking at ActivityPub, for example).