I mistakenly sent this to Greg and not the entire list. So, I'll retry it again:
Hello all. I am still fairly new to OSM, so I don't know all the ins and outs. But I have to ask a question. Other than Google Mapmaker is there any other ways that Google's data gets updated? I recently made several updates of walking trails in a local park here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.58835&lon=-89.88472&zoom=16&layers=M And I just noticed the other day that the same updates I made to the trail system (including the names) within OpenStreetMap showed up in Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/mJJMs Does Google import any data from OSM? How do we know the data that is subject to this post was in Google Maps first? Take care and have a great week. Rick Marshall -- Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP President Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo) 130 Sawgrass Ln O'Fallon, IL 62269 (618) 670-4259 [email protected] http://www.verticalgeo.com http://www.culturescapes.net Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Chris Lawrence <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Feb 21, 2013 1:19 AM, "James Mast" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> The user who added the interchange has no GPS traces listed for his >>> account. >>> >>> They could have been using someone else's traces in JOSM/Potlatch - you'd >>> have to load everyone's traces (GPX layer in JOSM) to be sure. >>> >>> You also would need to check the other free satellite overlays. Sometimes >>> Bing is behind MQ, NAIP, etc. in updates. Also different zoom levels. >>> >>> And even then it's possible they used personal GPS traces they didn't >>> upload. >> >> I have lots of traces, have drawn ways from them (in josm), and I >> haven't uploaded any of them. So not having traces in one's accounts >> should not lead to the conclusion that GPS was not used. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP President Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo) 130 Sawgrass Ln O'Fallon, IL 62269 (618) 670-4259 [email protected] http://www.verticalgeo.com http://www.culturescapes.net Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
