An interesting article on the value (or issues) of FourSquare generated spatial data:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/06/spatial_junk/ Joseph On 5 March 2012 11:22, Thomas Davie <tom.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > In their blog they made some cryptic comments about helping OSM with data... > No idea what they actually meant though, could just be helping direct users > to OSM, could be employing people to map stuff... who knows. > > Bob > > if (*ra4 != 0xffc78948) { return false; } > > > On 5 Mar 2012, at 11:17, Joseph Reeves wrote: > > I think they're just using tiles for mapping background on their > (not-mobile) website. No api, no POIs, no data sharing, just raster > images. Having said that, I can't remember reading anything proper > about this and appear to have learnt it all through osmosis. > > Cheers, Joseph > > > > On 5 March 2012 10:59, Frans Thamura <fr...@meruvian.org> wrote: > > mmm i want to know deeply about POI inside 4SQ and OSM, will 4SQ share with > > OSM database for POI? > > > F > > > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Would it be possible for Foursquare to let us use the information users > > type in (restaurant names, addresses)? There is a lot of good information > > there. > > > Janko > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
