Great move indeed. I for instance just invited a friend of mine that happens to be a 4sq super-user to edit OSM. He loves 4sq and never cared too much for OSM, now he'll probably give us a little love =)
Cheers, Arlindo "Nighto" Pereira On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Johan C <osm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great move by Foursquare. I wouldn't mind to see more interaction between > Foursquare and OSM. For instance, it's quite easy to put the entrance of > POI's in OSM, which can be handy in the Foursquare app to navigate to that > entrance (or for example the nearby parking lot). > > Cheers, Johan > > > 2013/8/2 Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> > >> > The main point was that the material 'added' to osm is properly >> licensed to osm. I'd not considered that there would be substantial POI >> data in foursquare that was not already present in some format in osm. This >> may be a 'country' facet since I'm only looking at UK data and certainly >> dumping foursqaure data into the UK would hit a substantial number of >> existing locations? In other countries this may not be the case and may be >> worth the exercise if more detailed material is not otherwise available? >> >> Exactly, in some countries the map is sparser so there's going to be more >> incentives to jump in and improve. E. g. it will be interesting to keep an >> eye on Brazil here. >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Alex Barth wrote: >>> >>>> They are being signed up directly to OSM ... >>>> >>>> Any user coming from Foursquare has to actually create their own account >>>> manually if they don't have one yet, just like anyone else. (Not sure >>>> if this is >>>> what you were getting at.) >>>> >>> >>> That was what I was saying poorly :) >>> The main point was that the material 'added' to osm is properly licensed >>> to osm. I'd not considered that there would be substantial POI data in >>> foursquare that was not already present in some format in osm. This may be >>> a 'country' facet since I'm only looking at UK data and certainly dumping >>> foursqaure data into the UK would hit a substantial number of existing >>> locations? In other countries this may not be the case and may be worth the >>> exercise if more detailed material is not otherwise available? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Lester Caine - G8HFL >>> ----------------------------- >>> Contact - >>> http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=**contact<http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact> >>> L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk >>> EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ >>> Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk >>> Rainbow Digital Media - >>> http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.**uk<http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<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 > >
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