On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Shaun McDonald <sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote: > > On 7 Nov 2009, at 13:32, Anthony wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason >> <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> If they spent a week surveying their surrounding area they could >> probably get much better results than Google. >> >> If what they want is exactly what Google provides, there's really no >> way to compete against that. > > Maybe we need some method for companies/organisations to be able to say that > an area isn't surveyed to a level they want and that they would like a > particular area to be surveyed to a higher degree for a specific purpose.
Along with a donation of time and/or money and/or data and/or resources for the purpose of fulfilling that request :). I hope that unlike Wikipedia, OSM allows and encourages such "paid editing". _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
