>> Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:23:25 +0100, Tom Morris wrote:
>> On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wrote:
>>> The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world,
>>> whereas
>>> OSM, for the most part, is not.
>>>
>>> Yes, TomTom is dying. But it's because of Googl
Oddly, I checked a family home in Missouri the other day.
On Google maps, it's set about 1 mile from where it should be... and on the
wrong side of the Missouri river. It shows roads where there are none, and
is thoroughly unusable. UPS etc don't deliver to the house because it's not
on their navi
(...)
> The other high-light for me I had already mailed you. It was the keynote
> speech by Jenova Chen [3]. Jenova is a game designer and some of the
> most remarkable games he designed were Flow [4], Flower [5] and Journey
> [6]. Especially the design principle of Journey impressed me most. So
>
2012/6/7 Richard Symonds :
> the house because it's not
> on their navigation systems...
May I thank evebody participating in this discussion for the
throughout update on navigation system?
I am finding it very interesting, above all the comparising among
different countries. =)
Cristian
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OSM is great. Here in Addis Ababa, street names are not used except in a
handful of major thoroughfares; people navigate by landmark. OSM has far
more navigable map of the city than googlemaps does. In some areas it
labels the street name in the local fashion (e.g. "Road to Gerji Giorgis).
Yet it
On 7 June 2012 15:30, Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> Yet it fails in other aspects -- the U.S. embassy is the most recognizable
> landmark on Intoto street, and is not listed; neither are the French,
> German, or British embassies. The EU Commission is not listed on Cape Verde
> st. even though that str
The more you play with OpenStreetMap, the more magical ways you start
discovering that you can use the data. Two that I've recently found...
1. Water fountains. Here in London, we used to have lots of water
fountains. Then modern capitalism found a much better way of
delivering water to people: pu
And again this month, suggestions are welcome for the most notable or
interesting news items from the Wikimedia universe (outside the scope
of WMF's own monthly report), for the upcoming May "Wikimedia
Highlights", at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Highlights#Movement_news_items_for
