On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Ben Last wrote: > Just to chime in on the topic... > > On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > To paraphrase (not specifically Wolfram, but the unnamed other megacorps > > you're chatting with): > > 1. they'd like to link to us directly but our infrastrucutre is too weak; > > 2. they would not want to give us a shitload of money to improve our > > infrastructure, but could imagine hosting something; > > 3. there is fear that the community would view this negatively. > > Most people on the talk-au list (or OSM'ing in Australia) will know about > NearMap (e.g. > http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-33.857061,151.215236&z=18&t=h&nmd=20100510). We > use the OSM data as the basis of our street maps, and actively support the > use of our PhotoMaps to extend OSM data (for instance, click the edit button > on our map page and you'll be dropped into Potlatch with our PhotoMaps as a > background to trace from). We also use opaque map tiles generated from OSM > data for our map page in StreetMap mode. > > We see serving StreetMap tiles as a key part of what we do, and are happy to > handle the load. We're working hard to get our maps to be updated faster > from the core OSM data, so at some point we will be a viable Big Third-Party > Tile Server. > > We also see it as key to OSM that we help to make editing as easy as possible > for the largest number of contributors, and we're actively looking at ways to > support simple edits such as adding addresses (addr:housenum, etc) and naming > un-named streets directly on our site, sending the edits back to the OSM > servers asap. We're not intending to directly handle feedback... we get > enough of that already by email and tend to fix up the OSM data ourselves, > but of course that's not scalable.
That's super interesting though - can you give a deep feel for what the volume and content of those emails is? Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
