[Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-27 Thread Jim Stob
Hello OSM Community, My name is Jim Stob and I am with Position Technologies, Inc. Position Tech works with large North America brands in managing their brick and mortar locations within the local ecosystem. We work closely with engines like Google and Bing as well as licensing our data to App

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-27 Thread Elliott Plack
Sounds great to me, POI data is hard to crowd source. Assuming the licensing and existing data issues are taken care of, I vote yes. Elliott Plack On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:59 AM Jim Stob wrote: > Hello OSM Community, > > > My name is Jim Stob and I am with Position Technologies, Inc. Position

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-27 Thread James
Same as Elliot for me On Aug 27, 2015 4:49 PM, "Elliott Plack" wrote: > Sounds great to me, POI data is hard to crowd source. Assuming the > licensing and existing data issues are taken care of, I vote yes. > > Elliott Plack > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:59 AM Jim Stob wrote: > >> Hello OSM Com

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-27 Thread Brian May
On 8/27/2015 11:56 AM, Jim Stob wrote: Hello OSM Community, My name is Jim Stob and I am with Position Technologies, Inc. Position Tech works with large North America brands in managing their brick and mortar locations within the local ecosystem. We work closely with engines like Google and

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 27.08.2015 um 17:56 schrieb Jim Stob : > > My question to the community is would you be interested in importing our POI > data if it met or exceeded your quality expectations? If the license issues can be solved and the data is up to date, this sounds very promising

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-27 Thread Jim Stob
From the responses received it sounds like we should first look at the licensing issue. I’d prefer not to make our TM and Data Agreement public but would be happy to send it to OSM's legal or those familiar the OSM license. If our agreement does not provide the necessary language I’d be happy to

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-28 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Jim Stob wrote: > Hello OSM Community, > > My name is Jim Stob and I am with Position Technologies, Inc. Position > Tech works with large North America brands in managing their brick and > mortar locations within the local ecosystem. We work closely with engines >

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-28 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Jim Stob wrote: > My question to the community is would you be interested in importing our > POI data if it met or exceeded your quality expectations? Jim, First off, I'm sorry for the late response to your question. As to your question, would we be interested

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-29 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Jim, Am 2015-08-28 um 05:52 schrieb Jim Stob: > From the responses received it sounds like we should first look at the > licensing issue. I’d prefer not to make our TM and Data Agreement public but > would be happy to send it to OSM's legal or those familiar the OSM license. The OpenStreetM

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-29 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Michael Reichert wrote: > The OpenStreetMap community is an open community and that's why we > strees openess and transparency. That's why sending the "TM and Data > Agreement" has to be published. > Michael, I don't understand why OSM cares in anyway about trad

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-29 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
Note that tools exist to help with ongoing conflation/synchronization. Overwriting data entered by hand is a general OSM third rail topic. However, a script that creates a list of "things to check" or "mismatches" has a welcome home: for example it can become a "maproulette" job, where a human come

Re: [Imports] OSM Import Question

2015-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Jim Stob wrote: > > My question to the community is would you be interested in importing our > POI data if it met or exceeded your quality expectations? > I'm OK with this on the caveat that the locations are accurate to a reasonable degree (such as on the custom