-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
On 05/14/14 08:55, Simon Poole wrote: > Are there actually examples of larger scale paid mapping that > haven't been disclosed and that have been detected by the DWG? Not by the DWG - but by the community, yes, this happens quite frequently. In Germany alone in the past year there have been four instances that I know of where a company or agency started a project that involved modifying OSM data and they were then found out by the community (one case involved the micro mapping of railway stations, one was cycle routes in Lower Saxony, and two were projects that aimed to improve disabled/OAP mobility by mapping sidewalks as separate footpaths). All of these cases had in common that there was to bad intent on the part of the organisation doing the mapping, but sometimes dangerously little knowledge about OSM and its community, and in each time it took the community a while to identify the people behind it and establish a working channel of communication. I don't know much about cases in other parts of the world; both Mapbox and Telenav are quite open about employing mappers (Telenav have had a talk at last SOTM-US about this). Their openness about this is welcome but at the moment totally voluntary; there are likely a bunch of other companies who do the same kinds of things but do not talk about it. Bye Frederik - -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTcxqpAAoJEOx/uhGAJu9HGLQH/j/Ig59gdK3kYNXdUomYAVGL tweZCVCP9NaQXq9brISVHy9wuHyqv6Q4/ZU5Erj2h1D5rACx08nq6+DpfRLTRwpk NTFpcpBRqzPmTWXyKoupZ1WWCWB8IUqHGmr3FsL4+AKJh3hIBjXXPXtNjiu3O215 At63EAguJZfCZyivCQWsSSAURzmWYbHjJudGd0PsS1lNRJ4h0a0a9QFzpgkGD5ud UCxMafPna2TJhRCewIR5TcjQVWTgCbAJuNR0FT+Qn0a9vbALFgMmyTP21K1zztLa W1ZswxfyReh/8x5afa/1R/k0YV/NvsJddkFUdgrNaHVonxlnstdpUxIZG/AyHu0= =0VcQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk