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It's great to see corporations contributing to OSM. There's only a couple top contenders for mapping data, and the best way to compete with them is to collaborate on a shared resource.
It's a complicated relationship, since companies often struggle with respecting community norms and the overall goals of the project, but I tend to agree.
It's great to see corporations contributing to OSM. There's only a couple top contenders for mapping data, and the best way to compete with them is to collaborate on a shared resource.
It's a complicated relationship, since companies often struggle with respecting community norms and the overall goals of the project, but I tend to agree.
Many of the red areas I see on the map, particularly in France, are fairly obviously where someone's been running a TomTom while on a train or a boat. Of course that's not going match OSM roads. I'm a little surprised this is not mentioned in the blog post - it seems a bit obvious.
Happy to answer any questions...
It's great to see corporations contributing to OSM. There's only a couple top contenders for mapping data, and the best way to compete with them is to collaborate on a shared resource.
It's a complicated relationship, since companies often struggle with respecting community norms and the overall goals of the project, but I tend to agree.
Some years ago you had to pay for updates and they were very slow to add new streets. Has this changed with OSM?
...but then newer devices only work with newer versions of the service, for which you haven't got a lifetime subscription. Eventually, your old TomTom stops working and your subscription is now worthless so you have to buy a new one.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a complicated relationship, since companies often struggle with respecting community norms and the overall goals of the project, but I tend to agree.
In what way? I'm interested to know more about this.
Or making mass edits / imports without discussing with local community beforehand.
Or as in the first point, but with "AI" as FB did.
It seems that the MapMetrics data mentioned either isn't available everywhere or (less likely) their site is being crushed. The data only loads for California and Colorado.
And France, weirdly. It also is quite low resolution in many areas, making it not super useful at the moment.
Truly an odd selection.
Woo! Happy to answer any questions...
It seems that the MapMetrics data mentioned either isn't available everywhere or (less likely) their site is being crushed. The data only loads for California and Colorado.
There is also a layer named OSM202106 (the default is OSM202103) with even less coverage (e.g. not France), but covering all of the Netherlands rather than just a part of it and covering the USA east coast.