2009/12/31 Jason Cunningham <[email protected]>: > This discussion is concentrating on the merits of Google, but I am more > concerned about the involvement of UNICEF and their apparent decision to > encourage people to create mapping data for Google. I assume UNICEF has a > variety of 'mapping data' or POI that it would like to see freely available, > and surely UNICEF should have seen OSM has the best organisation to hold > that data? > > A search of UNICEF's website shows some of UNICEF's views on mapping. Its a > GIS related pdf (1.5Mb - July 09), which mentions several internet map > suppliers, but not OSM. > http://www.unicef.org/evaldatabase/files/2009_Global_DevInfo_Fina.pdf > This document implies UNICEF doesn't even know OSM exists, which is just as > worring as them funding Google's map making > > My view is the OSM foundation or some other official OSM group should be > contacting and creating relationships with UNICEF (and others such > organisations). If in the future they decide to once again sponsor Google's > map making, they at least should be justifying why they are not supporting > putting mapping data in the public domain. > Importantly OSM and UNICEF would benefit from working together.
I emailed the author of the PSU course page on which the report bases the decision to support Google technologies, to let him know about OpenStreetMap. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
