Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally I think its these sort of mapping which are going to the most > useful in OSM, ie > as street mapping via Tomtom and Garmin is cheap as..
Tomtom and Garmin are relatively cheap in some ways, but they're not Free. I can't use either of them the way I want and there's essentially no possibility of that ever changing. The value of OSM for me is the O. Even if OSM never quite matches the big players for plain old street mapping and routing, which is their primary market and my primary use case, I'll still prefer OSM. > but tracks like this are what makes this a useful project. > ie unusual POI's or tracks not captured by commercial maps. And I can see that people who aren't computer nerds like me and can't just write their own software see the greatest value in the obscure, the niche, the data that for a commercial venture is too difficult and too low return to chase down. What I like best is that OSM can be both of these things without compromising on either. -- Sam Couter | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
