...and some metric that tells you that the data covers 99.1273% of reality. fwiw. But there's a point there, serious users want to know more about quality than they can find out easily right now. How you define quality, that's another discussion.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:36 PM, SteveC <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Speaking personally about what large orgs and what they want, I think it's pretty simple. Have a look at commercial data and OSM and do a diff, what are the main things missing? Addressing for geocoding and turn restrictions for routing.<br>
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On Nov 26, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Ed Avis wrote:<br>
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> I think everyone agrees that detailed legal discussion belongs on the legal list.<br>
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> Questions such as how any licence transition should proceed, deletion of existing<br>
> bits of map, and how to organize the voting process are not legal arcana but<br>
> questions of project governance, and surely belong on this list.<br>
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> I am sorry I asked about what Microsoft and others would like to see from OSM's<br>
> licensing terms. I hoped that some concrete answers would help discussion to<br>
> move on from the mostly fixed positions and legal nitpicking we see on the legal<br>
> mailing list (of which I am just as guilty as anyone else). But I guess the<br>
> big mapping sites are not willing to make a public statement for fear of being<br>
> seen to influence the project. That is a shame, since we are somewhat in the<br>
> dark about what the rest of the world thinks.<br>
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> Ed Avis <<a href="mailto:eda@waniasset.com">eda@waniasset.com</a>><br>
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