MapRoulette has come a long way since starting over a decade ago as a simple tool to fix road imports in the United States. Since its inception, we completely overhauled the design, made it easy for anyone t...
TomTom has been making a lot of challenges on MapRoulette for quite some time now, so if it’s just bringing in money that’s not too bad. I think the only way they can fuck it up will be to restrict challenge creation to TomTom employee, but since they haven’t bought MapRoulette (yet) I don’t see that happening now.
Let’s see where it goes. Many don’t want to contribute to #Mapillary since they were bought by facebook.
But as #maproulette directly contributes to #openstreetmap, I can’t see a problem here.
TomTom has been making a lot of challenges on MapRoulette for quite some time now, so if it’s just bringing in money that’s not too bad. I think the only way they can fuck it up will be to restrict challenge creation to TomTom employee, but since they haven’t bought MapRoulette (yet) I don’t see that happening now.