Hi On 04/04/2012 07:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
This might be getting off-topic to this list but to respond: according to this article[1], the author has contacted Bing and that Bing "stated that they use no OSM data whatsoever."
This is clearly wrong since Bing have already admitted to use OSM data for the blurring of military areas in Germany.
I guess it will be the typical communications cock-up with journalists and press officers. The original sentence probably contained a few qualifying adjectives which were then omitted in the article.
I think it would, for example, be correct to say that Bing uses no OSM data whatsoever *in the US* *in its current product range*" - which is not saying that they don't use OSM data elsewhere, as they do for the German blurring, and not saying that they don't have any OSM-based products in the pipeline or at least in the lab either.
(http://frontdoor.cloudapp.net/ doesn't count - it claims to contribute data to OpenStreetMap but it doesn't *use* OSM.)
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