On 2013-05-25 12:19, pec...@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Of course, "money spent" in Google terms is "effort" in OSM terms,
since we all contribute to OSM without getting paid (ok, some are
fortunate enough that someone actually pays them to work on OSM, but
most of us are not in that position).
I don't see how OSM would want to play this game. We don't see logic
in this. However, this make PR work.
Apparently there are people who think it is important. Why would we not
want to improve on OSM by getting it know to the public? OSM starts to
have a huge benefit for people. I can't download the maps for my
navigation from Google, I get them from OSM. I certainly benefit from
having a more complete Openstreetmap.
Regards,
Maarten
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
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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.
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<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.4046&lon=4.8371&zoom=14&layers=M
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