<p>Presumably there's a cost of the bandwidth used and of maintaining the servers; running anything approaching a SLA is going to cost.</p>
<p>Microsoft get access to the OSM data the same as anyone else, but they also get their images vectorised. I don't know if OSM data, or vector data from their rasters, is of use to them but its a potential bonus. Certainly if I had a load of images of the world I'd donate them and benefit from some crowd sourced digitisation.</p>
<p>Joseph<br></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 Apr 2012 19:23, "Lester Caine" <<a href="mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk">lester@lsces.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Matthias Meißer wrote:<br>
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Am 03.04.2012 19:14, schrieb yvecai:<br>
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Le 03/04/2012 18:56, Richard Fairhurst a écrit :<br>
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Pieren wrote:<br>
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we have a "media hype" (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft<br>
investing "big dollars" in OSM. [...]<br>
Where is the truth here ?<br>
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I'm sure we'd all like to know!<br>
<br>
I'm not aware of any announcement being made or (say) any formal contact<br>
this year between Microsoft and OSMF.<br>
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As I've seen no new informations in these articles, I'm inclined to<br>
think it's just a hype about the strategy war between the big 3 or<br>
something like that.<br>
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<br>
Same for me here. I monitor different media streams for OSM press works and it<br>
looked very much like a hype. No investigation and nobody checked the<br>
informations, just copy.... :(<br>
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But nevertheless I would agree that Bing gave us a real boost in mapping<br>
countryside etc.<br>
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But it's not actually costing them anything? They would be putting the images up anyway, so THEY are the only ones who gain by getting back free vectorized data?<br>
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