On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 10:50 +0100, Maarten Deen wrote: > I could even make a case that they are even more interested in OSM. > Since Nokia wants to offer navigation and since map coverage in > little-travelled area's is low, it would make sense for any company > offering maps to use crowdsourcing as a means to increase their > coverage.
I guess this depends on your coverage area. One area I travel to off-road, has almost all dirt roads marked on my navman and nokia maps, but only a few in OSM (that Ive added as Ive found the trails and surveyed them). Im sure in some areas, OSM coverage is much more detailed than navteq, but the simple answer is that navteq/nokia/MS can simply licence map data from whatever governments or businesses that are willing to licence it for a price. Keeping OSM around simply gives them another source to derive data from for the dataset they use/distribute. Then again, vague comments like 'dont count your chickens before theyre hatched' from (who I see as) a main liason between MS and OSM to this news, are sadly starting to show why companies like MS continue to see OSM as a disorganised unmatured project, and we citizens are the mushrooms. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
