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What was the date they started in the UK? How much cash on hand did they have at that point? A billion or so in the bank maybe? It all started with public da
by willrobinson 14y ago
What was the date they started in the UK? How much cash on hand did they have at that point? A billion or so in the bank maybe?
It all started with public data. Google was born out of a project at Stanford centered around the idea of "online libraries". They had lots of practice using public datasets. The crawlable web is itself a public dataset.
Your point about OSM is the reason I mentioned the generosity of MapQuest.