Have you ever got paid by Google for your photo or review contribution to Google maps? Have you considered your contribution to such kind of services as valuable information that should be paid?

Data is a crucial aspect of development and success of such companies as Foursquare, Facebook, Google, etc. The more data they have, the more powerful and richer they become. Data is an asset, and it’s a business model. The data broker industry generates around 200 billion USD annually without considering the interests of the people this information belongs to.

You are not their customers, therefore you are their product. — Vitalik Buterin

The Google map is created to give an advantage to advertising sellers. It doesn’t have a goal to be objective and most precise map, so it’s not.

Who controls the way the World navigates, controls the World. We definitely can say that Google controls the World with a massive presence on the web — 41% of internet users worldwide. Can we trust to a service which has been criticized in the past month for creating an “invisible web of our personal data”?

The other monopolist GPS owned by US government and operated by the US Airforce serves as a main geospatial standard for many devices. GPS is centralized and controlled by small group of people while the most accurate world clocks rely on it. Besides corruption threats, GPS could easily be tricked by some app like Fake GPS. There is too much at stake to be careless.

Tom Tom traffic, navigation and mapping products based on GPS, collected data from customers to police to catch speeding motorists. It’s a double trap of centralization.

In such a way Decentralization isn’t just a popular word, the contemporary society needs it. Being transparent and verified by many members it is an answer to corruption and systems errors. Centralized services could easily violate the owner right; meanwhile, blockchain eliminates this possibility entirely.