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black-tea on Feb 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Maps: Bird Mode

Yeah, that was great.

Bing also allowed OpenStreetMap to use its aerial imagery for tracing. This helped OSM a lot!

Google, on the other hand, asks users to help them with their proprietary data with no compensation.

rmc on Feb 24, 2019 | [–]

Before Bing, Yahoo allowed OSM to trace.

Piskvorrr on Feb 24, 2019 | | [–]

And others followed suit later, e.g. DigitalGlobe

anticensor on Feb 24, 2019 | [–]

If I recall correctly, founder of OpenStreetMap worked at Microsoft at the time.

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