NopMap wrote: > Hi! > > > Kai Krueger wrote: > >> Even if promoting to the company did not work, it might still be worth >> promoting OSM in the media coverage / blogs of the Nav4All shutdown as a >> reason why it is important to have free and open map data to prevent >> anti-competitive activities by a few large companies. >> >> > > I am fully aware that many people will not want to hear that - but why > promote something that OSM cannot deliver? I can understand why Nav4All will > rather shutdown than attempt to switch to OSM. > > A while ago, I had approached another company which produces mobile > navigation software, where I know some people. I tried to advertise OSM data > and maybe get some support for their software. To my great surprise, they > had spent a considerable sum of money on converting OSM data into their > format and had already evaluated it. The result of the evaluation was > disillusioning: The geometry is pretty good, but the attribution is way > below what would be required to substitute the commercial data. They decided > to not use it, in spite of the work already invested. I've been saying this since the first week I start working in OSM. I was basically told to shut up by people here claiming that OSM was a database with foibles & that the maps providers would have to sort out themselves; they could take it or leave it.
Sounds like they're leaving it - VERY disillusioning. Dave F. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk