<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'll be out on a limb and say that the reason is because they know not all locations for a particular business are mapped in OSM and so they don't want to rely on OSM for the actual locations. <br>
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Which begs the question of why Where 2 Get It doesn't edit OSM themselves to add the locations (which I will answer by saying that W2GI knows that they aren't familiar enough with all the areas to do it properly).<br>
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-jack<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 22, 2014 10:44:12 AM EST, Tod Fitch <tod@fitchdesign.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br /><div><div>On Dec 22, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">The company providing the service is Where 2 Get It ( <a href="http://www.where2getit.com/">http://www.where2getit.com/</a> ). They provide maps for store locator functions for a number of companies. For example: Moe's Southwest Grill, Safeway, Trader Joe's, Jo-Ann Fabric, Michael's. OSM is used for the base map with the store location placemarks as an overlay. You can tell that they are not utilizing the OSM data for the store locations because if you look closely you can see that their placemarks don't always line up with the actual locations of the stores in OSM.<br /><br />--Peter<div><br /></div></div></blockquote></div>I had noticed that the nearest Michael's to me had the pin in the wrong part of the shopping center (I am the one that mapped that Michael's location for OSM and am pretty sure I have it
right).<div><br /></div><div>Just looked at the Trader Joe's web site and it looks like they are using background map data from NAVTEQ. But they also have the store nearest me in the wrong location. :)</div><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail"><hr /><br />Talk-us mailing list<br />Talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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