dwazou@jlai.lu to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-219 hours agoGermany's Sovereign Tech Agency will give €384,000 to the OpenStreetMap Projectwww.sovereign.techexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1282arrow-down11
arrow-up1281arrow-down1external-linkGermany's Sovereign Tech Agency will give €384,000 to the OpenStreetMap Projectwww.sovereign.techdwazou@jlai.lu to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-219 hours agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareTCB13@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·18 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-210 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-28 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.