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cake on April 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Waze is so popular in Costa Rica (2014)

Pretty sad that they contributed hundred of hours of their time that they could lose any second if Google decided to ditch Waze.

Openstreetmaps allows you to download all the data for free.

nickysielicki on April 1, 2015 | [–]

Yup. And it's really great data, too. Building names, classification of building types, etc.

I did a project with a friend last semester using PostGIS with data from OSM and google glass. We learned a lot.

http://www.madisonar.com/

eli on April 1, 2015 | [–]

Presumably Google would incorporate that data into Google Maps if it's valuable, not simply delete it.

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