> At what point did you know this was going to take off?<p>> Ha. I’m not sure I do. I look at it really as a series of milestones, right? We are still not quite there. I mean, OpenStreetMap is a great display map, but there is still not a whole lot of navigation data and address information<p>Like, seriously? The founder condemns his product like this? Sure you have to be critical, but not outwardly. I use OsmAnd for to-address navigation all the time. Since the government data import in the Netherlands I never have to resort to proprietary sources. Germany and France too, I hit in some address in Hamburg and it routes me across the country.<p>Not sure if where he lives it's "still not quite there", but as a founder aren't you supposed to highlight the good parts?<p>Perhaps this rant also comes a bit from the unprofessionality that we, as mappers, are used to get from the self-proclaimed project admins. Threatening to revert our data import (which was a <i>huge</i> quality improvement in the Netherlands and also a huge effort by dozens of mappers), then stop responding when we ask additional questions.