On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.)
Is this still running? I believe it requires silverlight so I never actually saw it first-hand. Either way, Bing concsuming OSM data is not news... http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/08/02/bing-maps-adds-open-street-maps-layer.aspx Toby _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
