On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mintz <[email protected]> wrote: > IIRC, they dumped TeleAtlas about a year ago, in favor of a combination of > PD and other cheaply-licensed sources. The quality downgrade was immediate > and lasting. They hope that "the crowd" will correct it for them, but their > editing model is broken enough to where I don't think that can happen. The > sick thing is that it may not matter to their business model. Like many > other things, you don't have to be good - just be there.
Google Maps wins because it's so easy to embed everywhere. (Well, actually I don't know if that's true, but it's certainly perceived as being easy to embed everywhere, by comparison with other things like OSM.) Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
