<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">> >> Many companies have been set up to do this such as CloudMade, Geofabrik and ITO World.<br>> > <br>> > I think it is not correct to say that ITO has been set up to monetise<br>> > OSM; they have been in business much longer I believe (but Peter will<br>> > surely comment).<br>> <br>> I am not following the OSM list very well at present so sorry about the delay in replying.<br>> <br>> Re ITO and OSM: OSM is a wonderful source of data and we do offer commercial services that use OSM. You are however correct that ITO was not set up specifically around OSM - we were drawn <br>> to it because the
commercial mapping was of such low quality for pedestrian routing. We now have to convince more commercial parties over time that they can dare use crowd-sourced mapping <br>> which is the next big challenge!<br><br>Thanks Peter. Fyi, the document was updated to reflect this.<br><br>Cheers<br>Mikel<br></div></div>
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