Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-30 Thread Christian Quest
Hey Google... what about... Sarajevo ? Gaza ? Goré ? ... ;) Sarajevo: http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnikmt1=googlemaplon=18.38325lat=43.83595zoom=13 Gaza: http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnikmt1=googlemaplon=34.45762lat=31.52649zoom=14 Goré, Tchad (OSM EUROSHA* team mapping):

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-30 Thread Robert
On 13-01-29 13:11:34 CET, Kevin Peat wrote: On 29 January 2013 10:58, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: comment. I tried that too and gave up. However, it's also covered by CNN Also covered by the BBC (seems like no comments) and Map Maker also It also made it to Spiegel Online

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-30 Thread Janko Mihelić
Looks to me like the news is that Google has the data, not that the data is available. Oh well. Back to JOSM. Janko Mihelić ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread Floris Looijesteijn
Hey all, The Wall Street Journal and other news has this breaking news: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323375204578271201719130798.html Normally I try to refrain from Google bashing, but this is just a matter of good PR on Google's side. Our map is a zillion times better than

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/1/29 Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu: Hey all, The Wall Street Journal and other news has this breaking news: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323375204578271201719130798.html Normally I try to refrain from Google bashing, but this is just a matter of good PR on

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread Matt Williams
On 29 January 2013 10:52, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/29 Floris Looijesteijn o...@floris.nu: Hey all, The Wall Street Journal and other news has this breaking news: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323375204578271201719130798.html Normally I try to

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Peat
On 29 January 2013 10:58, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: comment. I tried that too and gave up. However, it's also covered by CNN Also covered by the BBC (seems like no comments) and Map Maker also got a good mention on BBC Radio 4 over breakfast this morning.

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread IgnacioZ
the same in engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/28/google-posts-newly-detailed-north-korea-maps/ Regards On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: On 29 January 2013 10:58, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: comment. I tried that too and gave up. However,

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread Pierre Béland
 : Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu Cc : osm talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 29 janvier 2013 7h19 Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea! the same in engadget.  http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/28/google-posts-newly-detailed-north-korea-maps/ Regards On Tue

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread Gregory
On 29 January 2013 13:03, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: ok, There is very good Bing imagery over Phyongyang. What do you think, if we define a OSM Task Manager Job and ask OSM contributors to map this in a few days. Then we write to the media and say : watch us! Pierre If you

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread Janko Mihelić
I too shall map Pyongyang for our brothers in North Korea (Best Korea). They have right hand driving there. That means this intersection is wrong in many ways: http://osm.org/go/55c9eXgZW- Janko Mihelić 2013/1/29 Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com On 29 January 2013 13:03, Pierre Béland

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread Johan C
I still wonder why volunteers would contribute to a closed map instead of an open map. I agree Google is good in PR for Mapmaker. The question is how we will have good PR for OSM, with the goal to attract more active mappers. This might be a challenge for the CWG though. First brainstorm idear

Re: [OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

2013-01-29 Thread christian.pietz...@googlemail.com
I think it's mostly because of its popularity and the second thing is that MapMaker seems easier to handle than the OSM editing tools. I read about this a few minutes ago and as I compared GMaps with OSM i couldn't stand that they mapped the party founding monument more precisely. So I decided