Gert, the same problems you attribute to OSM are valid for TomTom
(TeleAtlas) as well.
But don't believe me, I provide OSM Garmin maps for almost 5 years now,
so I'm probably 'too forgiving with my baby'. It's the users of these
maps that disagree with you.
A few recent quotes from OSM
I recently travelled in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro thanks to the
maps of Lambertus (OSM). We never got lost and I only had to make some few
coorections (roundabouts, etc) and add a road. we would never had found our
way without OSM and the good work of Lambertus.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Lambertus o...@na1400.info wrote:
A few recent quotes from OSM Garmin map users who emailed to say thanks:
I travelled for 40 days in 7 different countries in South America abd found
the Garmin Maps very helpful.
I was driving last week through the netherlands
* John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com [2012-05-29 09:15 +0100]:
The nearest they make to an accurate point is classification of
footpaths as roads --- I don't think I've seen any of those, but I
have found quite a few unclassified roads that look more like
tracks on Bing (and have adjusted them
Maarten Deen wrote:
Well, probably one of the very positive effects from OSM is the fact that when
we start mapping something, the closed-source mappers follow suit. The fact that
Google needs to add gimmicks like kajak routing across the pacific to beat us
says enough.
It's a win-win situation.
John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote:
To be honest, if a road has no classification, and is made of mud
and gravel, it's a track...
The ones I reclassified typically had two wheel-tracks of soil-colour
and grass
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John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com
wrote:
To be honest, if a road has
Whatever. I've certainly seen footpaths classified as roads in commercial
online maps for instance.
This is a very one sided argument and assumes that commercial online maps are
accurate. It also completely neglects the fact that you can use OSM data
without a fee andf without someone telling
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does refer
to us.
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/
Oh wauw. We're not perfect. Let's close up the shop. Thanks to SteveC for
Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Whatever. I've certainly seen footpaths classified as roads in
commercial
online maps for instance.
It's basically a misreading of how OSM data works. Essentially they're
saying that the fact we use the highway=track tag means OMG OSM
MISCLASSIFIES FOREST TRACKS AS
Certainly Apple mark footpaths as roads in the data that they have used from
us, but that's a rendering issue, not a data issue.
Tom Davie
On 29 May 2012, at 09:14, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Whatever. I've certainly seen footpaths classified as roads in commercial
online maps for instance.
2012/5/29 John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com:
footpaths as roads --- I don't think I've seen any of those, but I
have found quite a few unclassified roads that look more like
tracks on Bing (and have adjusted them accordingly where confident
of it).
+1 to the rest, but I don't think we should
To be honest, if a road has no classification, and is made of mud and gravel,
it's a track... If it's an official road in some way, then clearly it is
classified ;)
Thanks
Tom Davie
On 29 May 2012, at 09:32, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2012/5/29 John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com:
footpaths
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Thomas Davie tom.da...@gmail.com wrote:
To be honest, if a road has no classification, and is made of mud and gravel,
it's a track...
The ones I reclassified typically had two wheel-tracks of soil-colour
and grass between them, I think. If it's
On 29/05/2012 08:44, Maarten Deen wrote:
Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does
refer to us.
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/
Sounds like they're scared to me. With them looking over their shoulders
at OSM, it means their
On 29 May 2012 08:44, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does refer
to us.
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/
RichardF has a comprehensive slap down of their FUD:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Ok, they don't name us, but I think a leading open source map does refer
to us.
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/
I think the most interesting part of this is actually direct criticism
from
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 20:37 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote:
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/
I think the most interesting part of this is actually direct criticism
from our commercial competitors. You know the Gandhi thing: First they
ignore you, then they
On May 29, 2012 1:16 AM, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk
wrote:
This is a very one sided argument and assumes that commercial online maps
are accurate. It also completely neglects the fact that you can use OSM
data without a fee andf without someone telling you what you can and cannot
Hmm I seem to recall a stnav company accepting speed limit information
from users and then having the problem that people set the roads in
front of their houses to a speed limit of 0 so that the satnav
routing would avoid it... wasn't that TomTom?
Toby
We'd be vulnerable to exactly the same kind of attack, right? Do we
have any mechanisms to detect or prevent it?
Steve
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm I seem to recall a stnav company accepting speed limit information
from users and then having
Steve Bennett wrote:
We'd be vulnerable to exactly the same kind of attack, right? Do we
have any mechanisms to detect or prevent it?
Well (at the risk of stating the bleeding obvious) we can actually see
data that says maxspeed=0 rather than just wondering why we never
actually get routed
On 29/05/12 15:29, Steve Bennett wrote:
We'd be vulnerable to exactly the same kind of attack, right? Do we
have any mechanisms to detect or prevent it?
A community!
Steve
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Toby Murraytoby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm I seem to recall a stnav company
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