It seems like it's a little out of date too, it doesn't include all the buildings in Washington, DC, which were imported a month or so ago. Maybe they get a regular dump or something.
In any case, cool to see! Andrew On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Jack Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > -- > Typos courtesy of fancy auto-spell technology. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- 600,000 DC residents don't have a vote in Congress -- http://www.dcvote.org/ <http://www.dcvote.org/about/index.cfm>
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