On Friday 23 Oct 2009 10:32:51 pm H.S.Rai wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Other issue is that people love to view satellite images, which are > >> not there in OSM. > > > > they can use yahoo satellite images > > Then they can also use Yahoo Map.
which is even worse than google map > > If we love OSM and want to promote it, we need to some promotional > material with FAQs, how it compete with Y!, Google and others. yes - which is why it is essential to develop a local OSM map that is sensitive to Indian conditions > > >> Next issue to ease with which one can prepare map. I don't use Google. > >> But I know a person who really love OSM and try to promote it and > >> contributed maximum traces for city to OSM, but he also uses Google, > >> and he is of the opinion that working in Google is is much easier and > >> intuitive. > > > > as long as he does not use google data in osm, he is welcome to use what > > he wants > > We need to attract more peope to OSM rather allowing people to go to > others, by providing proper information. > > >> Which are the good solid point which make OSM better than Google > >> inspite of above observations. > > > > OSM data is always accurate. It may be missing, but if it is there, it is > > accurate. One cannot say that of google. > > Google also encourages people to contribute. So developing community, > and people who are not aware about copyright issue and ownership > issues, are contributing to Google, so we need to educate them. yes -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
