[OSM-talk] Google expands their map data

2010-11-13 Thread S Omeone
Hi, I haven't seen this mention before and I thought it might be of some interest here. Since sometime last year Google no longer used TeleAtlas for their map data in the USA but instead created their own map data.  It seems they have now extended their own data to 10 more countries including

Re: [OSM-talk] Google expands their map data

2010-11-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
S Omeone wrote: OpenStreetMap has of cause something similar with OpenStreetBugs (which Google may well have used as inspiration), but unfortunately, as too often, less convenient. [...] Can we perhaps learn something from Google of how to build a nice user friendly crowd sourcing of

Re: [OSM-talk] Google expands their map data

2010-11-13 Thread john whelan
Building something that is user friendly is actually quite difficult and takes a lot more resources and testing than you might think. It really needs a consistent integrated well planned team approach which isn't quite what OSM is. We just have a lot of people who do their own thing. Including

Re: [OSM-talk] Google expands their map data

2010-11-13 Thread Mike Dupont
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:47 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Including some who say it doesn't matter if we remove all the old data from the maps and just retain the Odbl stuff. funny you say that, while we are fighting over silly licenses, google is just taking over. I would like

Re: [OSM-talk] Google expands their map data

2010-11-13 Thread Nic Roets
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:54 PM, S Omeone someonew...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I haven't seen this mention before and I thought it might be of some interest here. Since sometime last year Google no longer used TeleAtlas for their map data in the USA but instead created their own map data.