The ‘Wikipedia of Maps,’ Tensions Grow over Corporate Influence

• mapping

  1 235 1.5 JavaScript

  OpenStreetMap contributions from the data team at Mapbox

  

Strava worked with Mapbox when they were switching over. I don't know what exactly the deal was, but Mapbox employees added a bunch of missing stuff to OSM based on Strava data analysis.

https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/114

• Openstreetmap

  734 2,022 9.9 Ruby

  The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

  

OSM has lots of other sources of bias, so it isn't really an additional problem.

For instance, someone has enthusiastically mapped Coke County, Texas:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/32.083/-98.465

I haven't looked into it, but chances are it is just a result of them living there, and it creates a huge bias in the data in Texas.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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