2015-07-17 10:23 GMT+08:00 Paul Norman <[email protected]>: > On 7/16/2015 6:42 PM, Dongpo Deng wrote: >> >> Does anyone have ideas why Facebook uses OSM for their checkin service in >> some Asian countries including Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and China? > > Probably one of the typical reasons, better data in what they care about, > different cost structure, or a different license model. It's good to see. > > I'm not surprised to see Facebook move in Asia first. The traditional > international proprietary data vendors have weaker data in much of the > region, and the national proprietary data sources are country by country, > and may not suit them. > >> In Taiwan, just some areas are patched OSM on Here Map, e.g. Taipei City. > > Do you mean there are parts that are using both OSM and Here at the same > time? I didn't see any, but am not familiar enough with the area. > > What I saw looked like a regional cut - taking parts of Asia from OSM. This > is like Flickr did in Bejing with OSM, or MapQuest does with North America > from TomTom and the rest of the world from OSM. > > I did see some quite crude cuts between what looked like two different map > styles, but those didn't seem to align with usage of Here vs usage of OSM. > >> Because of that, we get more and more Notes for reporting errors. > > Are people reporting what is a bug with Here data on OSM?
Because Facebook links the bug report directly to OSM note, there are some notes with misunderstanding. Such as: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/392042 , http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/397873 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/397603 The user is so angry because he/she didn't know that the bug reports are going to be "public". > > In North America we get some reports coming from Craigslist users who have > had a bad result from their geocoder. But they're easy to close, and I think > it's helped with more real notes. More error reports is a great thing. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- 李昕迪 Lee, Sin-di | http://www.mcdlee.tw _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
