* 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
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