A small amount of non-expert labor is just not worth very much? Like, Amazon Turk pays famously poorly.
What if instead, occasional contributions to updating the map was the price for using it?
I could imagine a world in which that was part of using the map, but it’s hard to imagine one in which it is a substantial portion. There are so many monetary costs to running a mapping site that you need some form of money coming in.
What if more online resources worked on a torrent-ish model where those accessing it contribute to hosting it for others?
Bandwidth is generally a small portion of the cost of running an online service. For example, the budget of this site (LW) is so overwhelmingly engineering time that they mostly don’t worry about the cost of servers, let alone bandwidth.
A small amount of non-expert labor is just not worth very much? Like, Amazon Turk pays famously poorly.
I could imagine a world in which that was part of using the map, but it’s hard to imagine one in which it is a substantial portion. There are so many monetary costs to running a mapping site that you need some form of money coming in.
Bandwidth is generally a small portion of the cost of running an online service. For example, the budget of this site (LW) is so overwhelmingly engineering time that they mostly don’t worry about the cost of servers, let alone bandwidth.