Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-22 Thread ouɐɯnH
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe OSM data leaked into their map like it did in south america and then they deleted it because of license violations? :) In Colombia Google still does not delete the data taken from openstreetmap. Humano Toby On

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-22 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Op 22-12-10 01:26, Steve Bennett schreef: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: On the Dutch mailinglist/IRC I have raised the point why Google Maps was always upgraded like within weeks after we did. With

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stefan de Konink wrote: I'm really wondering who is pulling the strings there, because now it is even more trivial to see how much better we are. Anyone is seeing this happening in their area's as well? Certainly in the UK there's a lot more 'Google-sourced' data appearing on the maps,

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: We should have some serious evidence before we start making accusations like that. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8ll=51.73157,3.94686spn=0.002422,0.004206z=18 Look in the history of openstreetmap.

[OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-21 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I was just browsing on Google Maps while geocoding some stuff, and I noticed that a lot of improvements that were on there before suddenly disappeared, even more interesting some parts like (water) basically ended up in complete non-sense.

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-21 Thread Toby Murray
Maybe OSM data leaked into their map like it did in south america and then they deleted it because of license violations? :) Toby On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I was just browsing on Google

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-21 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Op 22-12-10 00:18, Toby Murray schreef: Maybe OSM data leaked into their map like it did in south america and then they deleted it because of license violations? :) On the Dutch mailinglist/IRC I have raised the point why Google Maps was always

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: On the Dutch mailinglist/IRC I have raised the point why Google Maps was always upgraded like within weeks after we did. With different information though. Like OpenStreetMap is used as a Teleatlas-Bugs or something

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-21 Thread Alan Mintz
IIRC, they dumped TeleAtlas about a year ago, in favor of a combination of PD and other cheaply-licensed sources. The quality downgrade was immediate and lasting. They hope that the crowd will correct it for them, but their editing model is broken enough to where I don't think that can happen.

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: IIRC, they dumped TeleAtlas about a year ago, in favor of a combination of PD and other cheaply-licensed sources. The quality downgrade was immediate and lasting. They hope that the crowd will correct it for them,

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Dupont
In Kosovo, I have seen that the sat photos recently showed strange colors it was all very brown/grey near http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Banjska_%28village%29params=42.97_N_20.780833_E_title=Banjska thanks, mike On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Stefan de Konink