Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-27 Thread malenki
On 25.05.2013 12:15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: On 25/mag/2013, at 10:33, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm wrote: Of course with Wikipedia it was somehow easier because all of their work gets indexed by search engines Also osm is indexed by search engines When Google returns

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-27 Thread malenki
On 25.05.2013 12:15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: On 25/mag/2013, at 10:33, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm wrote: Of course with Wikipedia it was somehow easier because all of their work gets indexed by search engines Also osm is indexed by search engines When Google returns

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 26/mag/2013, at 13:03, Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm wrote: Well of course when you put osm in the search query you will get results from OSM.org... but it kind of defeats the purpose - the point is to promote OSM to people who don't know about it, isn't it? you only get these

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-05-25 07:09, James Mast wrote: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/collapsed-i-5-bridge-gone-google-maps-almost-quickly-it-6C10067906 [1] If I remember correctly, we had it marked as access=no and the segment removed about an hour faster than on Google. Somebody needs to get ahold of Rosa

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread pec...@gmail.com
For those who are still naive to think that journalists find out these things themselves: Google has huge amount of money to waste on PR. If last two years is evidence everyone is happy to advertise new stuff of their maps, because it's very easy for people to relate to. I don't see how OSM would

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2013-05-25 12:19, pec...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are still naive to think that journalists find out these things themselves: Google has huge amount of money to waste on PR. If last two years is evidence everyone is happy to advertise new stuff of their maps, because it's very easy for

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Christian Quest
We did some media work around a new highway opening near Lyon. It has been quite well received. We turned it around route calculations as most players had outdated data the route proposed was much longer than using the new highway ;) http://openstreetmap.fr/a89 This page has been visited much

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Simon Poole
Am 25.05.2013 13:09, schrieb Maarten Deen: On 2013-05-25 12:19, pec...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are still naive to think that journalists find out these things themselves: Google has huge amount of money to waste on PR. If last two years is evidence everyone is happy to advertise new

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Johan C
2013/5/25 Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr Next media work is about Roland Garros international tennis tournament which will start tomorrow outside of Paris... the area never looked as great as on http://u.osmfr.org/m/275/ ;) That's a beautiful piece of work, Compliments to the French

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Cartinus
What are these 8 pitches? They are tagged source=Bing, but don't look like anything in the Bing background of P2. http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/map/cquest/openstreetmap-pret-pour-roland-garros/#20/48.84774/2.24775 On 05/25/2013 01:24 PM, Christian Quest wrote: Next media work is about Roland

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Mike N
On 5/25/2013 6:15 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Also osm is indexed by search engines To varying levels - I searched OSM for some unusual POI names from January 2013, and they aren't indexed. I did notice some content indexed from 2010. ___

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Russ Nelson
Paweł Paprota writes: Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the internet? Sure. I link to them all the time (warning, these are all associated with railroads, so if you're not a railfan, click at your peril!): This search:

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 25/mag/2013 um 12:22 schrieb Paweł Paprota ppa...@fastmail.fm: Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the internet? Yes, I noted this because of a misspelled street name, but it also works for correctly spelled ones, if you put osm to the search term

[OSM-talk] Google Maps being praised for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-24 Thread James Mast
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/collapsed-i-5-bridge-gone-google-maps-almost-quickly-it-6C10067906 If I remember correctly, we had it marked as access=no and the segment removed about an hour faster than on Google. Somebody needs to get ahold of Rosa from NBC (who did the article) and let