This "self appointed police of OSM" will probably question - how did those companies receive the data, under which copyright? - how did they geocode the POIs, using Google's geocoder ? (a big no-no) - how up-to-date is this data ? Will you reimport POIs that have been rightfully removed in OSM ? - how will you avoid duplicates ?
all legitimate question imho. p.s. people that keep blaming the mailing lists for bad behaviour, really make me wonder why I keep contributing to OSM (mailing list). Did you ever wonder that this type of constant nagging might turn off well-meaning people as much as the people you point at turn off you? On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 9:00 AM Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 8:00 AM Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: >> >> >> Oh yes, there's nothing wrong with Facebook (and Yelp, and TripAdvisor >> and and) having their own PoI database. But, they _could_ help us, >> massively, by sharing it. They way they talk about OSM, you'd swear they >> were already doing all they could to help us. >> >> But it's naive to think they ever will. Nothing wrong with that, >> shareholder value and all that. >> > > Hi Rory, > > Respectfully, it is naive to think that even if they did offer their POI > databases, the self appointed police of OSM would allow the POIs to be added > to OSM. > > Truthfully, it is naive to think that any mapping or data that is not > contributed just the way the few vocal folks who monopolize these OSM lists > like, will be accepted. > > There really is no way to win with these folks, offer a lot and they accuse > the contributor of trying to take over and/or destroying OSM, offer too > little and they accuse the users of taking advantage of OSM. > > Best to just do like most folks who are interested in using and contributing > to OSM do - unsubscribe from these lists and carry on. > > cheers, > Blake > > > > > > > > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------- > Blake Girardot > OSM Wiki - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot > HOTOSM Member - https://hotosm.org/users/blake_girardot > skype: jblakegirardot > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
