Re: [Talk-de] Uber kauft Karten-Technologie von Microsoft

Laut der Aussage von Ricky Brundritt (Program Manager for Bing Maps) ändert sich für OSM nichts: There are no planned changes to this. Bing Maps will continue to let OSM use Bing Maps imagery. Quelle: https://twitter.com/rbrundritt/status/616028862531530752 Gruß Am 30.06.2015 um 22:09

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

I don’t think that it’s a good idea to rely on a external database. (inconsistency, overhead for map producers/developers, different toolchains, etc.) If the name:xx is just a simple transliteration you won’t need Wikidata, you can use algorithms for producing a map in the foreign language.

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

I don't think that's a good idea to try to solve the problems we're faced with by our current OSM data model by setting up a second database. We need an improved data model which fits our needs. Am 29.05.2015 um 11:28 schrieb Jo: We need our own OSMdata instance in between to describe real