Congratulations to you and the team, Martijn. This is awesome to see this work come to fruition!
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Martijn van Exel <marti...@telenav.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > At Telenav we have started making the switch to OSM today, as you may have > seen around the web and twitter. > > I am really excited about this, not only because I have been working at > Telenav for the past two years to help make this happen, but also because > the project that I have been a proud contributor to for all these years has > finally reached a stage where this is now possible. > > What does this mean for you? Well first and foremost, you can now use > Scout, a commercial grade navigation app that is used by tons of people > every day, to get around, knowing that it is powered by your favorite map. > The iOS version is undergoing the OSM switch right now, the Android version > will switch in June. > > As an OSM contributor, you will of course start noticing that your OSM > edits will make it into Scout. Not right away, like the map on osm.org; > we currently update our maps every two weeks. That will get better as we > get more comfortable with the rapid update cycles. Also, not all OSM edits > make it into Scout. Most importantly, Scout search results are not powered > by OSM yet. This is likely to change in the future, but I don’t know when > yet. > > We have done a good chunk of work improving OSM to be ready for this, > mostly in the very same way everyone here improves the map: by opening up > our favorite editors and manually editing the data[1]. But also by > analyzing the data and pointing out errors, which we have started to feed > to MapRoulette. Speaking of which, I have had the opportunity to work on > MapRoulette quite a bit, as well as other smaller things such as the > Battle Grid, Relation Pages and Brave Mappers. I mostly hear these things > are useful, and we value all your feedback enormously as we think of more > ways to support the project. > > But more than anything really I want to say thank you! Thank you first and > foremost for being the great mapping community that makes OpenStreetMap > what it is - not only the best map of the world, but also a place to make > friends and have fun. And thank you for being patient with us. Along the > way, we have at times bombarded this list with questions and suggestions on > how to improve certain aspects of OSM, and we have relied on your wisdom to > help us make sane decisions in our efforts to improve OSM. > > This process surely does not end with today’s switch - if anything, we’re > just getting started. There is a lot more we can do to help improve the > map, especially now that we are getting so many eyes on it. And there is > probably a lot more to learn for us along the way. I am looking forward to > it. > > Drop me a line if you have any questions or comments, or to let me know > your experience with Scout. Looking forward to hearing from you! > > Martijn > > [1] See my colleague Kristen talk more about that in her SOTM US talk: > http://stateofthemap.us/session/telenav-osm-editing-experiences/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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