Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-27 Thread malenki
On 25.05.2013 12:15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > On 25/mag/2013, at 10:33, Paweł Paprota wrote: > > > Of course with Wikipedia it was somehow "easier" because all of > > their work gets indexed by search engines > > > Also osm is indexed by search engines When Google returns results point

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 26/mag/2013, at 13:03, Paweł Paprota wrote: > Well of course when you put "osm" in the search query you will get results > from OSM.org... but it kind of defeats the purpose - the point is to promote > OSM to people who don't know about it, isn't it? you only get these results because

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Martin Koppenhöfer
Am 25/mag/2013 um 12:22 schrieb Paweł Paprota : > Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the > internet? Yes, I noted this because of a misspelled street name, but it also works for correctly spelled ones, if you put osm to the search term you'll see them so

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Russ Nelson
Paweł Paprota writes: > Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in > the internet? Sure. I link to them all the time (warning, these are all associated with railroads, so if you're not a railfan, click at your peril!): This search: https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/ope

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Mike N
On 5/25/2013 6:15 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Also osm is indexed by search engines To varying levels - I searched OSM for some unusual POI names from January 2013, and they aren't indexed. I did notice some content indexed from 2010. ___ Tal

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

2013-05-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
On 25/mag/2013, at 10:33, Paweł Paprota wrote: > Of course with Wikipedia it was somehow "easier" because all of their > work gets indexed by search engines Also osm is indexed by search engines cheers Martin ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@open