W dniu 15.09.2015 18:10, Joseph Reeves napisał(a):
http://hello.mapquest.com/ [5] ?
Nice try, Sauron!... ;-)
I would say this is not the answer for OSM and for me this is half baked
solution at best.
Nice things:
- Dynamic POI layers (but limited to some basic types of POIs)
- Satellite view (but limited to medium scale, at least in Warsaw)
- Traffic layer (but again, not working here)
- Menu for travel planning (I don't know which parts of the world are
available in this service).
- Better low zoom.
...and that is all good (or just not bad).
Bad (or just lacking) things:
- High zoom levels are totally lacking details (osm-carto have it).
- Lack of different styles (we have 5 to choose).
- No innovative things (vector tiles for example).
- No personalization (like UMap).
- Ads.
- Lack of community control.
- Lack of OSM brand recognition (even copyright note is just one of 3
and it's only to comply with the license probably).
It looks like a commercial traveler help, not general tool for end users
of OSM. It may be a nice service in itself, but as a OSM portal for most
of the people it'd be a failure in my opinion.
Our strength is a lot of details. We can show indoor levels of railway
stations, 3D models of some buildings, insane amount of POIs and even
their opening hours - but nobody will see it here. There's not a
slightest hint you can start being a mapper if you want to add/correct
some things in your neighborhood - which is another plus for end users.
Also, as it was already pointed out, we can't be sure what data are used
and if one day it won't become YAMS (Yet-Another-Map-Service) which has
nothing to do with OSM - or even simply hostile takeover by anyone with
their own maps an agenda. And if we will promote it as a portal for our
end users, we will make only this brand stronger, not our project brand
(ever heard about GNU project eclipsed by other labels?). Or they can
use our brand as a honeypot for mediocre/suspected services (ever heard
about people downloading "Open Office" from third parties and mad about
spam apps it brings?).
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I'm happy to hear we may just have not enough horsepower at the moment,
but we're not ignoring end users. It means we can mimic for example
Mozilla in the future (dual social/commercial entity) or develop fair
partnership with existing (or start-up) commercial enterprises, but we
don't have to. We can also act as a hub and integrate some more external
services, just like we already do with static map layers or routing
services.
So if there are services like dynamic data layers or something
UMap-driven which are ready to be a part of our hub, we won't have to
rely entirely on our resources, while having the overall community
control and brand recognition, with a smooth end user/mapper transition
as a bonus.
Thanks for all your responses!
--
"The train is always on time / The trick is to be ready to put your bags
down" [A. Cohen]
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