* On 13-Oct-2008 at 12:45PM PDT, Peter Batty said: > And I'm sure that the owners of Encyclopedia Britannica laughed at the > notion that you could produce a comparable online encyclopedia by community > input alone. While the article may have taken the two statements out of > context, it was odd that he followed up his first statement by saying that > the reason they know their data is correct is through (lack of) feedback > from the community!
And they're also using data from an unwitting "community" to improve their datasets. I'm sure you all saw this: http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/tele-atlas-customers-get-tomto.html SDE _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
