But CloudMade and OSM are 2 different things. Yellow pages can use cloudmades slippymap instead of others. They could partner-up, but give us 2 more years to get OSM-basemap upto snuff :-)
On 7/27/09, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > --- On Mon, 27/7/09, Paul Houle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> OSM could replace, perhaps even >> surpass, the street maps in a >> product like City Navigator, but I'm thinking about >> the business >> listings. It seems to me that a free product could be >> provided on a >> basis similar to the Yellow Pages: it seems to me >> that it's worth it >> for businesses to be listed, so a project like that >> could pay it's >> bills by offering premium listings. > > Don't ya just love a good chicken and egg problem. Yellow pages works > because it has both critical mass and usually a physical product is sent > out. > > At this point in time OSM needs businesses to embrace it more than it can > offer back to businesses, so charging them would be like a slap in the face. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
