1) Google paying attention to a community is far more attractive than a bunch of open source guys.
2) Google Maps's UI is much better than Open Street Maps'.
The first is hard to fix, unless some open consortium showers attention on communities.
The second should be solvable by following the dictates of a couple of highly qualified designers who have much sharper eyes than 41Latitude.com, which already does a great job.
1) Google paying attention to a community is far more attractive than a bunch of open source guys.
2) Google Maps's UI is much better than Open Street Maps'.
The first is hard to fix, unless some open consortium showers attention on communities.
The second should be solvable by following the dictates of a couple of highly qualified designers who have much sharper eyes than 41Latitude.com, which already does a great job.