<story><title>Creating Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data</title><url>https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-creates-hyper-accurate-maps-from-open-source-maps-and-real-time-data-8dcf9abdd46a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>While I may not be a fan of Facebook, Uber, and Lyft, I absolutely am a fan of their efforts to contribute back to OSM. Credit where credit due.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmc</author><text>Some of them had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing. Facebook initally dumped a pile of computer vision generated data into OSM, breaking everyone, and didn&amp;#x27;t tell anyone. It was entirely reverted ( more here:  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17856687&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17856687&lt;/a&gt; ). It took a lot of effort before they&amp;#x27;d listen.</text></comment>
<story><title>Creating Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data</title><url>https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-creates-hyper-accurate-maps-from-open-source-maps-and-real-time-data-8dcf9abdd46a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>While I may not be a fan of Facebook, Uber, and Lyft, I absolutely am a fan of their efforts to contribute back to OSM. Credit where credit due.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nexuist</author><text>Lyft I would say probably fares the best out of that bunch on moral issues; driver treatment notwithstanding. That being said all of these companies have made amazing contributions not just to OSM but to the open source community in general - React has probably brought more people into software development than any existing web framework in history.</text></comment>