For those who are still naive to think that journalists find out these things themselves: Google has huge amount of money to waste on PR. If last two years is evidence everyone is happy to advertise "new stuff" of their maps, because it's very easy for people to relate to.
I don't see how OSM would want to play this game. We don't see logic in this. However, this make PR work. Peteris. 2013/5/25 Maarten Deen <md...@xs4all.nl> > On 2013-05-25 07:09, James Mast wrote: > >> http://www.nbcnews.com/**technology/collapsed-i-5-** >> bridge-gone-google-maps-**almost-quickly-it-6C10067906<http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/collapsed-i-5-bridge-gone-google-maps-almost-quickly-it-6C10067906> >> [1] >> >> >> If I remember correctly, we had it marked as "access=no" and the >> segment removed about an hour faster than on Google. Somebody needs to >> get ahold of Rosa from NBC (who did the "article") and let them know >> about OSM pawning Google here. >> > > Google is known by the public. > Recently there was an important addition to the motorways around Amsterdam > here [1] (opening of the A5, 2e Coentunnel). Google didn't have correct > maps until 1,5 week afterwards. Of course OSM had correct maps almost > instantly (it was only unfortunate that there was a small error and that > osrm only updates once a week). > > Maybe we need to be more vocal and send out messages to various news sites > when a new road is opened and it is on OSM and not on Google. > > [1] <http://www.openstreetmap.org/**?lat=52.4046&lon=4.8371&zoom=** > 14&layers=M<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.4046&lon=4.8371&zoom=14&layers=M> > > > > Regards, > Maarten > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> > -- mortigi tempo Pēteris Krišjānis
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