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
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
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
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
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.
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