dwazou@jlai.lu to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-218 hours agoGermany's Sovereign Tech Agency will give €384,000 to the OpenStreetMap Projectwww.sovereign.techexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1284arrow-down10cross-posted to: europe@feddit.org
arrow-up1284arrow-down1external-linkGermany's Sovereign Tech Agency will give €384,000 to the OpenStreetMap Projectwww.sovereign.techdwazou@jlai.lu to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-218 hours agomessage-square8fedilinkcross-posted to: europe@feddit.org
minus-squareTCB13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·17 hours agoThis is great news! Let me rewrite a part: Why is this important? Because intelligence agencies (in Europe) allegedly don’t want to depend on Google (most likely NSA controlled) and might be using the data from OSM and they want to make sure it is good. :)
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 hours agoGeez I’d be pretty shocked if an Intel agency in Europe depended on a third party for their maps
minus-squareTCB13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 hours agoI wouldn’t. Those kinds of maps are very powerful, they provide accurate and constantly updated information from millions of users.
This is great news!
Let me rewrite a part:
:)
Geez I’d be pretty shocked if an Intel agency in Europe depended on a third party for their maps
I wouldn’t. Those kinds of maps are very powerful, they provide accurate and constantly updated information from millions of users.