Mapillary joins Facebook

[Richlv]

@pbb

Every time they mention “Facebook maps” in that video, they are actually talking about OpenStreetMap with their (thin) Facebook skin applied over it. I don’t know if you are familiar with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (https://www.hotosm.org/), they have long been providing free and open mapping data “for good” in partnership with organisations like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders.

I feel it is important to clarify that HOT is great at attracting OSM contributors and motivating them. We are still talking about OSM data here.
Similar as it wouldn’t be good for Facebook to grab all credit for OSM data, it wouldn’t be good for HOT to do so.