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ajmurmann on July 29, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: How far can you go by train in 5h?

I started a similar project a few years ago and the real problem for any new player is just data availability. I was able to get Open Street Map data, but I also needed data on businesses with ratings and photos. IMO this creates a huge moat against anyone entering the market.

yaomtc on July 30, 2022 [–]

There is also Mapillary (now owned by Facebook unfortunately) and Yelp. I am not familiar with their APIs however.

ajmurmann on July 31, 2022 | [–]

Not sure about Mapillary, but Yelp license agreement were to restrictive for me and I assume for most really interesting use cases

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