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Sorry if my comment ignored the contributions many companies make to OSM - but I think the article expresses concern that OSM's potential as something that can be contributed to within a local community is threatened by people from first world cities mapping swathes of area from satellite images. I disagree with that idea of course - I think the nature of contributing to OSM already favours in the field volunteers.

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In my experience, local ground-level contributors are often reverted by well-meaning remote mappers who rely on outdated satellite imagery. In areas without a strong community of local mappers, most of the contributions will be coming in from users who've never been anywhere near your actual location.

That comment made the problem much more clear to me -- more clear than the entire article

We do too. The to-fix tool that we use tends to focus on things we can identify algorithmically, like broken links, isolated lines, mis-spellings, etc. We encourage all our staff to get out and map locally, and some have been highly involved in local GIS communities for years.

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