Today Google announced an understanding amongst the World Bank to brand responded fairly negatively to Google's novel API charges. However I'm struggling to come across how these ii assort announcements are connected.
RWW claim that "Google has decided to compete amongst Ushahidi too other open-source efforts to solve this job (crisis mapping)". RWW seem hither to misunderstand the occupation of crisis reporting websites similar Ushahidi. Ushahidi is built upon mapping platforms such equally Google Maps too Open Street Maps. For it to run good inward times of major disasters thence it needs access to the latest crisis mapping efforts.
With Google's novel partnership amongst the World Bank it appears that agencies too platforms such equally Ushahidi directly bring a clear procedure equally to how they tin stimulate down to access the latest mapping information from Google.
In many cases of major disaster the efforts of the Open Street Map community volition in all likelihood hateful that the near accurate too up-to-date maps volition endure openly available from Open Street Map too non from Google.
Google Maps too OpenStreetMap are ii alone unlike platforms amongst unlike goals. Google Maps relies on to a greater extent than centralised command over the moderating of community map edits than OpenStreetMap (I'm non going to come inward the reasons why here). This agency that the information behind Google Map Maker isn't openly accessible.
This partnership amongst the World Bank seems to me endure an crusade on Google's occupation to render a agency to access the latest mapping information rather than crusade to closed access. I for 1 retrieve it should endure welcomed.
(BTW - I nonetheless retrieve Read Write Web is the best tech weblog out there)
RWW claim that "Google has decided to compete amongst Ushahidi too other open-source efforts to solve this job (crisis mapping)". RWW seem hither to misunderstand the occupation of crisis reporting websites similar Ushahidi. Ushahidi is built upon mapping platforms such equally Google Maps too Open Street Maps. For it to run good inward times of major disasters thence it needs access to the latest crisis mapping efforts.
With Google's novel partnership amongst the World Bank it appears that agencies too platforms such equally Ushahidi directly bring a clear procedure equally to how they tin stimulate down to access the latest mapping information from Google.
In many cases of major disaster the efforts of the Open Street Map community volition in all likelihood hateful that the near accurate too up-to-date maps volition endure openly available from Open Street Map too non from Google.
Google Maps too OpenStreetMap are ii alone unlike platforms amongst unlike goals. Google Maps relies on to a greater extent than centralised command over the moderating of community map edits than OpenStreetMap (I'm non going to come inward the reasons why here). This agency that the information behind Google Map Maker isn't openly accessible.
This partnership amongst the World Bank seems to me endure an crusade on Google's occupation to render a agency to access the latest mapping information rather than crusade to closed access. I for 1 retrieve it should endure welcomed.
(BTW - I nonetheless retrieve Read Write Web is the best tech weblog out there)
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