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The Gig Economy for Mapping – Like Uber, but for Cartographers

September 27, 2018 /

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Streetcred https://www.streetcred.co/ , a blockchain-powered open-source mapping startup, will pay you to map. (And then give the data away for free.)

Earlier this summer, with little advance notice, Google Maps enacted a substantial price hike for developers that use its services–as much as 1,400 percent for certain search products. Companies that were once able to embed Google’s geographic search tools on their websites more or less for free now had to pay hundreds, if not thousands of dollars of month to keep the service.

Small business owners flipped out.

Laura Bliss

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/09/a-blockchain-based-startup-wants-to-pay-you-to-map/570652/

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