On Wednesday 30 November 2005 06:46 am, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> Wade Curry wrote:
> > similar effect for an open map database. How would you keep it
> > open and still mitigate against errors, innocent or malicious?
>
> Wikipedia info can be very subjective and difficult to verify. I suspect
> that an open map database would be far simpler. If someone places the
> lat/long for the Eiffel Tower in San Diego, something's up. More subtle
> position errors are more difficult to detect but because people would
> actually be using this info for navigation and incorrect data would be a
> real problem you can bet people would notice unlike some questionable
> info which gets included in someones school report which the teacher
> probably would not notice as incorrect either.
>
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I see two different problems:
1) Getting raw map data
2) Annotating the maps.
I don't see a lot of reason in the long term (wireless
Internet everywhere) to do 1). Use either Google or
Yahoo to provide the maps. Then use their APIs to
annotate the maps.
Here are the APIs:
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
http://developer.yahoo.net/maps/index.html
BobLQ
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