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Now imagine if Tomtom and Microsoft both paid users for map improvements. That would be super cool.

They could even make an app to submit the improvements and even show me ads, I don't care. I would still do it.

in practice you can't trust a bounty system like this, so the next best might be to sell your company products in such a way as to minimize the system friction between new sales, new data coming in from those new sales, and feeding back to the open ecosystem. In that latter case, you can't trust the company management, but to my mind .. that's the breaks

> you can't trust a bounty system like this

You mean the accuracy of the data? I guess that is why a lot of systems have “validators” or something like that in place.

But it’s a problem with OSM and wikipedia in general.

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