Jul 24, 2020, 12:46 by r...@hubris.org.uk: > On 23/07/2020 10:55, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB wrote: > >> >> >> >> Jul 23, 2020, 11:49 by for...@david-woolley.me.uk: >> >> On 23/07/2020 10:12, Nick wrote: >> >> Do we actually know what the general public use OSM for? >> >> >> My impression is that the target for a lot of the material in OSM is >> professional users of maps, rather than the general public. >> >> I would say that most of use by general public is indirect - from location >> maps in a bus, through maps on mapy.cz/Osmand/FB/Snapchat/Uber/Maps.me >> to indirectly benefiting from use of OSM data in various >> plans/analysis/scientific research. >> > > I though Uber used Google, which would explain a couple of comical > misdirections to somewhere near-ish to my destination, which I could > replicate later on in Google. > I have seen reports that they changed map source in app (I never used Uber) - it may be also Android vs iPhone or deployed only for limited testing
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