[OSM-ja] TomTomによるOSMへの批判記事(Fwd: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us)

2012-06-03 Thread Shu Higashi
/google-ip-vandalizing-openstreetmap 日本でも、OSMに対する懸念として正確さや信頼性は、 攻撃とまでは言わずとも、よく聞かれるところだと思います。 このあたり、みなさんのお考えやご意見をお聞かせ頂ければ幸いです。 -- Forwarded message -- From: Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 09:44:43 +0200 Subject: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us To: t

Re: [OSM-ja] TomTomによるOSMへの批判記事(Fwd: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us)

2012-06-03 Thread ribbon
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 06:02:18PM +0900, Shu Higashi wrote: その正確さと信頼性をTomTomのマップと比較するものです。 1.OSMは道路のカバー率がTomTomより低く、車道と歩道がごっちゃになっている。 これは、きちんと入れてない場所がそれこそたくさんあるので しょうがないでしょう。ただ、徐々に整備されていくかと。 10年経てばかなり整備されるのではないかなあ。 2.OSMは攻撃に対してもオープンであり、過去に一方通行の方向を書き換えられたこともあった。

Re: [OSM-ja] TomTomによるOSMへの批判記事(Fwd: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us)

2012-06-03 Thread TANAKA Toshihisa
としです。 まぁ、「いつかこんな日も来るだろう」と思っていました。 個人的には、地図ベンダーやカーナビベンダーが、OSM の存在に 注目していると言う事で、それだけ認知が進んでいると、前向きに 見ています。 TomTomによるOSMへの批判記事 http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/ が話題になっていました。 機械翻訳して読んでみました。 個人的には、TomTom が一番懸念しているのは、 we harness the local knowledge of our 60

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-06-01 Thread Lambertus
Gert, the same problems you attribute to OSM are valid for TomTom (TeleAtlas) as well. But don't believe me, I provide OSM Garmin maps for almost 5 years now, so I'm probably 'too forgiving with my baby'. It's the users of these maps that disagree with you. A few recent quotes from OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-06-01 Thread RB
I recently travelled in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro thanks to the maps of Lambertus (OSM). We never got lost and I only had to make some few coorections (roundabouts, etc) and add a road. we would never had found our way without OSM and the good work of Lambertus. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Lambertus o...@na1400.info wrote: A few recent quotes from OSM Garmin map users who emailed to say thanks: I travelled for 40 days in 7 different countries in South America abd found the Garmin Maps very helpful. I was driving last week through the netherlands

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-30 Thread Phil! Gold
* John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com [2012-05-29 09:15 +0100]: The nearest they make to an accurate point is classification of footpaths as roads --- I don't think I've seen any of those, but I have found quite a few unclassified roads that look more like tracks on Bing (and have adjusted them

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-30 Thread Lester Caine
Maarten Deen wrote: Well, probably one of the very positive effects from OSM is the fact that when we start mapping something, the closed-source mappers follow suit. The fact that Google needs to add gimmicks like kajak routing across the pacific to beat us says enough. It's a win-win situation.

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-30 Thread Greg Troxel
John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest, if a road has no classification, and is made of mud and gravel, it's a track... The ones I reclassified typically had two wheel-tracks of soil-colour and grass

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-30 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
] Verzonden: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:00 PM Aan: John Sturdy CC: talk@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest, if a road has

[OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Maarten Deen
Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does refer to us. http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/ Oh wauw. We're not perfect. Let's close up the shop. Thanks to SteveC for all the effort, but it wasn't enough. Well, probably one of the very

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Subject: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does refer to us. http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/ Oh wauw. We're not perfect. Let's close up the shop. Thanks to SteveC for all the effort, but it wasn't

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread John Sturdy
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does refer to us. http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/ Oh wauw. We're not perfect. Let's close up the shop. Thanks to SteveC for

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: Whatever. I've certainly seen footpaths classified as roads in commercial online maps for instance. It's basically a misreading of how OSM data works. Essentially they're saying that the fact we use the highway=track tag means OMG OSM MISCLASSIFIES FOREST TRACKS AS

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Davie
the restrictive, closed-source model for electronic data. Nick -Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: - To: talk@openstreetmap.org From: Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl Date: 29/05/2012 08:45AM Subject: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/5/29 John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com: footpaths as roads --- I don't think I've seen any of those, but I have found quite a few unclassified roads that look more like tracks on Bing (and have adjusted them accordingly where confident of it). +1 to the rest, but I don't think we should

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Davie
To be honest, if a road has no classification, and is made of mud and gravel, it's a track... If it's an official road in some way, then clearly it is classified ;) Thanks Tom Davie On 29 May 2012, at 09:32, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/5/29 John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com: footpaths

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread John Sturdy
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest, if a road has no classification, and is made of mud and gravel, it's a track... The ones I reclassified typically had two wheel-tracks of soil-colour and grass between them, I think. If it's

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Dave F.
On 29/05/2012 08:44, Maarten Deen wrote: Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does refer to us. http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/ Sounds like they're scared to me. With them looking over their shoulders at OSM, it means their

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Grant Slater
On 29 May 2012 08:44, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does refer to us. http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/ RichardF has a comprehensive slap down of their FUD:

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does refer to us. http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/ I think the most interesting part of this is actually direct criticism from

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 20:37 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/ I think the most interesting part of this is actually direct criticism from our commercial competitors. You know the Gandhi thing: First they ignore you, then they

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On May 29, 2012 1:16 AM, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: This is a very one sided argument and assumes that commercial online maps are accurate. It also completely neglects the fact that you can use OSM data without a fee andf without someone telling you what you can and cannot

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Toby Murray
Hmm I seem to recall a stnav company accepting speed limit information from users and then having the problem that people set the roads in front of their houses to a speed limit of 0 so that the satnav routing would avoid it... wasn't that TomTom? Toby

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Steve Bennett
We'd be vulnerable to exactly the same kind of attack, right? Do we have any mechanisms to detect or prevent it? Steve On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm I seem to recall a stnav company accepting speed limit information from users and then having

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread SomeoneElse
Steve Bennett wrote: We'd be vulnerable to exactly the same kind of attack, right? Do we have any mechanisms to detect or prevent it? Well (at the risk of stating the bleeding obvious) we can actually see data that says maxspeed=0 rather than just wondering why we never actually get routed

Re: [OSM-talk] TomTom is thumping us

2012-05-29 Thread Chris Hill
On 29/05/12 15:29, Steve Bennett wrote: We'd be vulnerable to exactly the same kind of attack, right? Do we have any mechanisms to detect or prevent it? A community! Steve On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Toby Murraytoby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm I seem to recall a stnav company