t media hype in Microsoft lending big
>support and big dollars to OSM ?
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>Mikel Maron wrote
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>> Hi
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>> I think we've squeezed just about enough conspiracy theories out of this
>> thread. Let's end it.
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>> -Moderators
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Mikel Maron wrote
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> Hi
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> I think we've squeezed just about enough conspiracy theories out of this
> thread. Let's end it.
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> -Moderators
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> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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WTF
This is from Microsoft at #osm-de 10/02/2012
"Microsoft has received requests from the arm
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>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big
>support and big dollars to OSM ?
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>Richard Weait wrote
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>> No donor to OSM gets special terms or access to the data.
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>> You and I donate data :: we get OSM data
Richard Weait wrote
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> No donor to OSM gets special terms or access to the data.
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> You and I donate data :: we get OSM data under the OSM License
> RichardF donates code :: he gets OSM data under the OSM License
> Yahoo! donated imagery for years :: they get OSM data under the OSM
> License
>
Joseph Reeves wrote:
Presumably there's a cost of the bandwidth used and of maintaining the servers;
running anything approaching a SLA is going to cost.
Actually I'd view that the other way around ...
Potentially reducing the load on their own servers because people will use the
vectorized map
Presumably there's a cost of the bandwidth used and of maintaining the
servers; running anything approaching a SLA is going to cost.
Microsoft get access to the OSM data the same as anyone else, but they also
get their images vectorised. I don't know if OSM data, or vector data from
their rasters,
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
> But it's not actually costing them anything? They would be putting the
> images up anyway, so THEY are the only ones who gain by getting back free
> vectorized data?
No donor to OSM gets special terms or access to the data.
You and I donate d
Matthias Meißer wrote:
Am 03.04.2012 19:14, schrieb yvecai:
Le 03/04/2012 18:56, Richard Fairhurst a écrit :
Pieren wrote:
we have a "media hype" (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft
investing "big dollars" in OSM. [...]
Where is the truth here ?
I'm sure we'd all like to know!
I'm not aw
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Michael Collinson wrote:
> On 04/04/2012 04:24, Russ Nelson wrote:
>>
>> Pieren writes:
>> > Where is the truth here ? Is the "big support and big money" the
>> > access of Bing aerial imagery ? Is that all ?
>>
>> Hey, that's enough for me. I LOVES the Bing aer
On 04/04/2012 04:24, Russ Nelson wrote:
Pieren writes:
> Where is the truth here ? Is the "big support and big money" the
> access of Bing aerial imagery ? Is that all ?
Hey, that's enough for me. I LOVES the Bing aerial imagery. Microsoft
is welcome to take all the credit for helping us t
At 2012-04-03 19:24, Russ Nelson wrote:
Pieren writes:
> Where is the truth here ? Is the "big support and big money" the
> access of Bing aerial imagery ? Is that all ?
Hey, that's enough for me. I LOVES the Bing aerial imagery. Microsoft
is welcome to take all the credit for helping us that
Actually I fail to see any war going on, because Google can easily
take our data, attribute accordingly and use them (with ODbL it will
be even easier). For some unknown for me reason they still insist to
use their own "soup" of data :)
So Microsoft gave us Bing permission, and for that I say than
Am 03.04.2012 19:14, schrieb yvecai:
Le 03/04/2012 18:56, Richard Fairhurst a écrit :
Pieren wrote:
we have a "media hype" (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft
investing "big dollars" in OSM. [...]
Where is the truth here ?
I'm sure we'd all like to know!
I'm not aware of any announcement
Pieren writes:
> Where is the truth here ? Is the "big support and big money" the
> access of Bing aerial imagery ? Is that all ?
Hey, that's enough for me. I LOVES the Bing aerial imagery. Microsoft
is welcome to take all the credit for helping us that they want to
take.
--
--my blog is at
Le 03/04/2012 18:56, Richard Fairhurst a écrit :
Pieren wrote:
we have a "media hype" (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft
investing "big dollars" in OSM. [...]
Where is the truth here ?
I'm sure we'd all like to know!
I'm not aware of any announcement being made or (say) any formal contact
Pieren wrote:
> we have a "media hype" (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft
> investing "big dollars" in OSM. [...]
> Where is the truth here ?
I'm sure we'd all like to know!
I'm not aware of any announcement being made or (say) any formal contact
this year between Microsoft and OSMF.
cheers
On 03-04-12 18:18, Pieren wrote:
Where is the truth here ? Is the "big support and big money" the
access of Bing aerial imagery ? Is that all ? Who much does it cost to
Microsoft to allow its aerial imagery usage in OSM ?
I don't find any answer/facts to these simple questions but many speculatio
Hi all,
Since the release of this PCWorld article:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/252649/microsofts_secret_weapon_against_google_maps_open_source.html
we have a "media hype" (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft
investing "big dollars" in OSM. This was repeated in the TheVerge
article
(http://
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