Tim, > I have customers with 1000+ trucks around the country between them who are > extremely interested in the precise location of the torch route for exactly > this reason. Are you saying that their potential use of OSM is in some way > invalid?
The rejection of the torch route was not because it was not useful or interesting, but because it does not fit with what those people see OSM as trying to achieve. The torch route is exactly the sort of value-added service a company such as yours can/should build-on OSM, but that does not mean it has any place in OSM data. > While it's clearly ephemeral, in the sense that it is of limited duration - > so is much geographical data. Weather, for example. Is weather geographical data? Are you holding that up as an example of something else that should be in OSM? Out of interest, is Optrak an OSM consumer? A quick glance shows your website mentioning OS and Navteq as map providers. Regards, Craig On 7 April 2012 18:19, TimPigden <[email protected]> wrote: > While it's clearly ephemeral, in the sense that it is of limited duration - > so is much geographical data. Weather, for example. > In this case if you were trying to make deliveries into a town through which > the torch was been carried, it would make sense to avoid being there at that > time. > I have customers with 1000+ trucks around the country between them who are > extremely interested in the precise location of the torch route for exactly > this reason. Are you saying that their potential use of OSM is in some way > invalid? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/London-2012-tourch-relay-route-tp5576344p5624879.html > Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
