Martijn, I like it so far! It is hard to part ways with Waze but I do like that the Scout data is all OSM.
Question, I occasionally get some weird routing. Is there a good place to discuss these things? Here, twitter, etc? Elliott On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > > We launched Scout for iOS powered by OpenStreetMap a little over a > month ago now, followed by the Android version in early June. While > the feedback in general has been overwhelmingly positive, I am really > curious to hear about your experiences. Have you tried Scout? What are > your impressions? Have you given any feedback using the map error > reporting function in the app? > > Nothing major to report from our side. We're looking closely at the > map feedback coming in through the apps. Our main objective right now > is to make sure the feedback we get is useful so we can fix OSM based > on it where necessary. Of course, we would like to involve you in that > process - either through MapRoulette, or OSM notes, or some other > means - but right now there is too much 'noise' for that to work > without us looking at every report first. Which is what we are doing. > You may see the odd note appear on the map as a result of this. (see > an example here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/187143) > > Some other OSM related things we're working on currently: > * We are fixing ways in OSM that are marked with fixme=dual > carriageway (or a variant thereof). > * We are adding exit_to information to selected stretches of freeway > * We are working on getting fresh data to Scout users faster > (currently 2 weeks). > * I am working on improving MapRoulette - specifically better statistics > > As always, feel free to email me directly with questions, feedback or > concerns! > > -- > Martijn van Exel > OSM data specialist > Telenav > http://www.osm.org/user/mvexel > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mvexel > http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?mvexel > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp
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