Re: [OSM-talk] Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)
On 18/01/12 16:46, Ben Johnson wrote: That's exactly how I ended up here. Me too. I bought my GPS receiver for Geocaching, but I also love maps and quickly realised that the only good maps for my Garmin were based on OSM. Nowadays OSM has become much more important than Geocaching for me, though. I try to only go caching in places that could do with some mapping. It looks like they are still using Google by default in the big map, though. I kept meaning to make a post in the forum to try to convince them to switch to OSM by default. OSM is often better and contains things that are actually useful for cachers like footpaths. I'm sure many of them like maps and would become OSMers like me. -- Borbus. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)
Yet another move from Google Maps to OSM: With yesterday's update of the geocaching.com website GM has been replaced by OSM at least for some of the maps. From the release notes ([1]): • Removed Google Map API from user routes (CAaR) and replaced with Leaflet/open-map • Removed Google Map API from Trackables maps and replaced with Leaflet/open-map Additionally the upper, static map in a cache listing is now based on leaflet while the second map a bit further down is still GM. (Note: These maps are only visible when logged in as a user). A nice side effect could be to further promote OSM within the geocaching community. Potentially this should bring in addtional mappers as the entrance hurdle for geocachers should not be too high: They have GPS units, go outdoors and are typically technically rather savy... Michael (user Ohr) [1] http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=288931st=0 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)
A nice side effect could be to further promote OSM within the geocaching community. Potentially this should bring in addtional mappers as the entrance hurdle for geocachers should not be too high: They have GPS units, go outdoors and are typically technically rather savy... Michael (user Ohr) That's exactly how I ended up here. I heard about OSM on a geocaching podcast back in 2008. Geocachers are gps-savvy adventurists who love contributing their knowledge of places and routes, many are map geeks by nature, so OSM is a perfect complement to their hobby. OSM input by expert cachers = better maps on geocaching.com, a symbiotic relationship. Likewise, any OSMers who haven't heard of geocaching may want to give it a go and add a bit of fun to their mapping expeditions. BJ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Geocaching.com moved to OSM (partly)
Ben wrote That's exactly how I ended up here. Me too! - a fellow cacher told me about OSM and, of course, the cunning devil made sure he hadn't mapped my street. So of course I mapped it, then the neighbourhood, then the town, the neighbouring, city, as much of the state as I could and so on... I'm sure that if the Google (non sales) people are clever, and I know that they are, they would ditch there own map data NOW, replace it with OSM data and then build as much added value on top of it that they can (before someone else does). On that note. Because Bingmaps are so much more slippy than Googlemaps, and because they use (ahem) so much better map data, I only now use googlemaps to get to Google streetview. Is there an easy way to get to a Google street view by clicking on a Bingmap??? Nick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
