I'll be out on a limb and say that the reason is because they know not all locations for a particular business are mapped in OSM and so they don't want to rely on OSM for the actual locations.
Which begs the question of why Where 2 Get It doesn't edit OSM themselves to add the locations (which I will answer by saying that W2GI knows that they aren't familiar enough with all the areas to do it properly). -jack On December 22, 2014 10:44:12 AM EST, Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> wrote: > >On Dec 22, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: > >> The company providing the service is Where 2 Get It ( >http://www.where2getit.com/ ). They provide maps for store locator >functions for a number of companies. For example: Moe's Southwest >Grill, Safeway, Trader Joe's, Jo-Ann Fabric, Michael's. OSM is used >for the base map with the store location placemarks as an overlay. You >can tell that they are not utilizing the OSM data for the store >locations because if you look closely you can see that their placemarks >don't always line up with the actual locations of the stores in OSM. >> >> --Peter >> >I had noticed that the nearest Michael's to me had the pin in the wrong >part of the shopping center (I am the one that mapped that Michael's >location for OSM and am pretty sure I have it right). > >Just looked at the Trader Joe's web site and it looks like they are >using background map data from NAVTEQ. But they also have the store >nearest me in the wrong location. :) > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-us mailing list >Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto-spell technology.
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