On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:46 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > > The coverage of the Netherlands has already commercial quality (go and > > have a look) - actually it is already better than commercial data and > > in the US the governments TIGER data has been imported. > > Compare that with other parts of world.
Okay, check out the following links: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.319914,44.403477&spn=0.097541,0.160675&z=13 http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=33.3285&lon=44.3873&zoom=13&layers=B0FT This is twice Baghdad, once Google maps and once OSM. If you happen to live in a place where TeleAtlas gives a sh*t about, you wont get any maps at all. If you now check google, than you will see that TeleAtlas gives sh*t about two thirds of the world. I can't see, why the european governments don't publish their street data - which was already paid by the tax payers, i.e. us. Thus if Poland has no good data, just write an email to the political parties and ask them why not give the data to OSM? I think this is the power of open source! The democratic empowerment of everybody - not just people living in first world countries. And last not least OSM starts to get there where Wikipedia already is: map that are up to date. See this link for the new terminal in London-Heathrow: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=286 And last not lest a link to mapping in second/third world countries: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=285 The Open Source Movement at its best! Best regards, Marcus _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community