I've seen a suggestion somewhere to contact amazon about the possibility of running street imagery cameras. Would be a great way to get many local details available for so-called armchair mappers.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 2:14 PM Dave F via Talk-GB < talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > It would be good if they could add address data. Probably not postcodes > - I assume they're a customer of Royal Mail's PAF, but house numbers & > names. > > DaveF > > On 29/07/2019 13:32, Gregory Marler wrote: > > I've exchanged a number of messages with the Amazon mappers and their > team > > lead Jothirnadh. First of all, if anything isn't quite right then I would > > encourage the person who spots it to... > > a) contact the editor about it (or better if you post a comment on the > > changeset) > > b) add tags yourself to further clarify the way (OSM is a wiki). > > c) a combination of the above. > > > > Amazon are using OpenStreetMap (great) and they are putting in some work > to > > improve it (great). > > They've been a bit behind on widely communicating with the community, but > > they are slowly getting better. They're also working in a number of > > countries, where similar concerns are coming up, and they're replying in > > similar ways. They are keen to learn and do better. > > > > Communication certainly helps people get better. Most (all?) of us have > had > > something we've learnt from other mappers. Often we don't know a tag is > > used, or we don't know the map data is used in a certain way. > > > > Amazon obviously have their specific interests in mapping, but so do all > of > > us. You're unlikely to see me adding tags for voltage of an electricity > > line, but you may see me add the pylon. > > > > > > Happy mapping everyone, > > Gregory. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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