A quick update - 75% of Scout users on iOS should be using OSM maps as of this afternoon. It should be 100% by tomorrow afternoon.
Thank you for all the warm and encouraging responses I have received on- and off-list! Martijn On May 19, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > At Telenav we have started making the switch to OSM today, as you may have > seen around the web and twitter. > > I am really excited about this, not only because I have been working at > Telenav for the past two years to help make this happen, but also because the > project that I have been a proud contributor to for all these years has > finally reached a stage where this is now possible. > > What does this mean for you? Well first and foremost, you can now use Scout, > a commercial grade navigation app that is used by tons of people every day, > to get around, knowing that it is powered by your favorite map. The iOS > version is undergoing the OSM switch right now, the Android version will > switch in June. > > As an OSM contributor, you will of course start noticing that your OSM edits > will make it into Scout. Not right away, like the map on osm.org; we > currently update our maps every two weeks. That will get better as we get > more comfortable with the rapid update cycles. Also, not all OSM edits make > it into Scout. Most importantly, Scout search results are not powered by OSM > yet. This is likely to change in the future, but I don’t know when yet. > > We have done a good chunk of work improving OSM to be ready for this, mostly > in the very same way everyone here improves the map: by opening up our > favorite editors and manually editing the data[1]. But also by analyzing the > data and pointing out errors, which we have started to feed to MapRoulette. > Speaking of which, I have had the opportunity to work on MapRoulette quite a > bit, as well as other smaller things such as the Battle Grid, Relation Pages > and Brave Mappers. I mostly hear these things are useful, and we value all > your feedback enormously as we think of more ways to support the project. > > But more than anything really I want to say thank you! Thank you first and > foremost for being the great mapping community that makes OpenStreetMap what > it is - not only the best map of the world, but also a place to make friends > and have fun. And thank you for being patient with us. Along the way, we have > at times bombarded this list with questions and suggestions on how to improve > certain aspects of OSM, and we have relied on your wisdom to help us make > sane decisions in our efforts to improve OSM. > > This process surely does not end with today’s switch - if anything, we’re > just getting started. There is a lot more we can do to help improve the map, > especially now that we are getting so many eyes on it. And there is probably > a lot more to learn for us along the way. I am looking forward to it. > > Drop me a line if you have any questions or comments, or to let me know your > experience with Scout. Looking forward to hearing from you! > > Martijn > > [1] See my colleague Kristen talk more about that in her SOTM US talk: > http://stateofthemap.us/session/telenav-osm-editing-experiences/
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