beautifully crafted website.
Except that his backgound image shows no name for the largest city on the map (Berlin) ;-).
Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation
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Re: Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation
#32beautifully crafted website.
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Re: Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation
#33It's great that Development Seed is getting the funding. They are amazingly innovative developers, the creators of TileMill and MapBox. They'll do great work improving the OSM toolset.
TileMill is a marvel; if you ever wanted to try your hand at making map tiles give it a shot. You can have a basic custom map up and going in 20 minutes. It's particularly cool how they are delivering a Mac and Windows app based on Node.js, of all things. It's terrific.
Re: Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation
#34How long, one wonders, until Open Street Map becomes the ubiquitous standard? Could Google switch to using it, and feed into it themselves to improve its results further?
In some places it sure as hell would improve Google Maps if they would (be able to?) include OSM data. Compare for example Sarajevo on Google Maps at http://goo.gl/maps/kc3yP to its OSM counterpart at http://osm.org/go/xfYWiLv8-- .
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not any time soon, their licenses are incompatible. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lc88a/were_the_google_...
OSM just changed their license. Possibly for this very reason...
From what I heard in 2011, the OSM license change was motivated by legal status of the data in the EU. Creative Commons is seen as an arts license and data could only be licensed and protected through an appropriate data license.
Re: Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation
#36The more we hate the Apple's map, the more we need to worry if our life is depending too much on a particular company like Google or Facebook. It is just the beginning, kudos to OSM, I really hope OSM can be as successful as Wikipedia in the future.
Apple wrote a software application which uses Openstreetmap and Tomtom. They don't have an actual map data set like Google does.
Re: Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation
#37How long, one wonders, until Open Street Map becomes the ubiquitous standard? Could Google switch to using it, and feed into it themselves to improve its results further?
In some places it sure as hell would improve Google Maps if they would (be able to?) include OSM data. Compare for example Sarajevo on Google Maps at http://goo.gl/maps/kc3yP to its OSM counterpart at http://osm.org/go/xfYWiLv8-- .
Yeah, this looks pretty neglected by Google. Interesting comparison. I couldn't help noticing that the GMaps link loads instantly while this (much more useful) OSM link took nearly 20 seconds to fully load.
Re: Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation
#38They probably saw the 'amazing ios6 maps' blog and were like 'damn, time to put some money in'
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume they're currently paying license fees, and spending lots of money on keeping their systems up to date. Switching to open data would hopefully reduce both factors.
I routinely switch between 4 different map and map-based services (Google Maps for Streetview, Bing Maps for Ordnance Survey maps, OpenStreetMap for paths and Geograph for pictures overlayed on OS grid cells) - I'd love to have some way of combining these.
Sounds like you are in the UK (Ordnance Survey) but I wrote a mashup to combine mapping layers and provide other utilities (slope analysis etc) for my own planing of off-road bike, hike and ski trips:
It mostly covers the US and there are a lot of legal issues surrounding the different layers meaning it is difficult to run it as anything but a free site which may be why more people don't do this.
Re: Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation
#40It's great that Development Seed is getting the funding. They are amazingly innovative developers, the creators of TileMill and MapBox. They'll do great work improving the OSM toolset. TileMill is a marvel; if you ever wanted to try your hand at making map tiles give it a shot. You can have a basic custom map up and going in 20 minutes. It's particularly cool how they are delivering a Mac and Windows app based on Nod…
Before they rocked the OSM world, they rocked the Drupal world :)
It is great to see they continue to innovate at a very high pace! :)