Awesome! <br><br>Presumably this will force the issue of of a richer data model?<br><br>Can we get AND to post a smallish sample of the data that they are donating, so that we can see what kinds of data will need importing?
<br><br>Aled<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Coast</b> <<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div>OSM Founder makes another unilateral decision...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=223" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=223</a></div><br><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=223" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="6">
<span style="font-size: 19.2px;"><b>AND donate entire Netherlands to OpenStreetMap</b></span></font></a></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;" align="justify"><a href="http://www.and.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<font face="Lucida Grande">Automotive Navigation Data</font></a><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"> (AND) is a leading provider of location, routing, mapping and address management are </font><a href="http://www.and.com/company/newsletter/newsletter10/art01en.php" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<font face="Lucida Grande"><font color="#2e68c6">donating a street network of the entire Netherlands</font></font></a><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">. Yes, an entire country.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;" align="justify">
<font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">This is basically phenomenal.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;" align="justify"><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">We'll have our first country complete from this data, which AND and I want to work with the community to import. This is not least because fantastic work has already been done in
</font><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Amsterdam" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Lucida Grande"><font color="#2e68c6">Amsterdam</font></font></a><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">
and elsewhere by the Digital Pioneers supported </font><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.nl/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Lucida Grande"><font color="#2e68c6">openstreetmap netherlands
</font></font></a><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"> community. AND will be at the </font><a href="http://www.stateofthemap.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Lucida Grande">
<font color="#2e68c6">State of the Map</font></font></a><span style="line-height: 19px;"><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style="line-height: normal;">, and you should be too</span></font><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">
<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></font></span><span style="line-height: 19px;"><img src="cid:1F5ADCD2-55A8-4740-B21C-7A95E700929F@local"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;" align="justify"><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">
Here's the press release:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;" align="justify"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style="line-height: normal;"><b>AND and OpenStreetMap join forces to create digital maps
</b></span></font><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></font><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande"><span style="line-height: normal;"> Rotterdam - AND Automotive Navigation Data has agreed with the OpenStreetMap Foundation to donate digital maps of the Netherlands, China and India to the OpenStreetMap community. The aim is to create the most up-to-date map in the market. With this partnership AND recognizes the power of a community and the Web
2.0 developments.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;" align="justify"><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">OpenStreetMap gives the community the opportunity to create maps with up-to-date geo-data and shows the results immediately. Pure community collaboration at its best. "Overall we want to enable users of mapping data to also be contributors, from reporting errors to doing full surveys." According to Steve Coast, one of the founders of the OpenStreetMap project.
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;" align="justify"><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">"It is known that a small percentage of a map is not representing the present situation. With the help of the community AND aims to close this gap and be able to a deliver a map that is 100 % correct." According to Maarten Oldenhof, CEO AND Automotive Navigation Data.
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;" align="justify"><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">According to Wikipedia Web 2.0 refers to "a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services - such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies - which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users." AND is busy today with the process of bringing maps online with the possibility of online user generated updating. "We think Web
2.0 will be the ultimate tool for map updates. With this partnership we work with the people that have a keen insight into how a community works around maps" according to Maarten Oldenhof.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px;" align="justify">
<font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande">Initially, AND will make its street level data of the Netherlands and the major road networks of China and India available to the OpenStreetMap community. "We are very happy with the map donation of AND. With this additional map data we hope to create a bigger mapping community and be able to cover more and more areas" according to Steve Coast.
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