Presumably there's a cost of the bandwidth used and of maintaining the servers; running anything approaching a SLA is going to cost.
Microsoft get access to the OSM data the same as anyone else, but they also get their images vectorised. I don't know if OSM data, or vector data from their rasters, is of use to them but its a potential bonus. Certainly if I had a load of images of the world I'd donate them and benefit from some crowd sourced digitisation. Joseph On 4 Apr 2012 19:23, "Lester Caine" <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Matthias Meißer wrote: > >> Am 03.04.2012 19:14, schrieb yvecai: >> >>> Le 03/04/2012 18:56, Richard Fairhurst a écrit : >>> >>>> Pieren wrote: >>>> >>>>> we have a "media hype" (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft >>>>> investing "big dollars" in OSM. [...] >>>>> Where is the truth here ? >>>>> >>>> I'm sure we'd all like to know! >>>> >>>> I'm not aware of any announcement being made or (say) any formal contact >>>> this year between Microsoft and OSMF. >>>> >>> As I've seen no new informations in these articles, I'm inclined to >>> think it's just a hype about the strategy war between the big 3 or >>> something like that. >>> >> >> Same for me here. I monitor different media streams for OSM press works >> and it >> looked very much like a hype. No investigation and nobody checked the >> informations, just copy.... :( >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/OpenStreetMap_in_the_**media<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_in_the_media> >> >> But nevertheless I would agree that Bing gave us a real boost in mapping >> countryside etc. >> > > But it's not actually costing them anything? They would be putting the > images up anyway, so THEY are the only ones who gain by getting back free > vectorized data? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - > http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=**contact<http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact> > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - > http://www.firebirdsql.org/**index.php<http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php> > > ______________________________**_________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> >
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