On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Andrew Errington <a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > What the web person *should* have done is looked at OSM in their new > location and fixed the underlying data (if it was wrong or incomplete) or > made their own map based on the data, but omitting the features they > didn't like.
The web person in question probably has a lot of tasks on his hands. It takes 5 minutes to embed a Google Maps map instead of an OSM map but tracing a 10-block radius as in this case is going to take half a day at best, assuming quality aerial imagery. Likewise setting up your own rendering takes half a day at best if you're not already familiar with the rendering tools involved. > Of course, we all know this. Yes, we know that everyone could probably use OSM maps for their business website if they spent a week surveying their surrounding area / creating custom renderings. But that's not very helpful when they can just embed Google instantly and get the same results. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
