[OSM-dev] minute dumps

[Toby Murray]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On 04/04/2012 07:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>>
>> This might be getting off-topic to this list but to respond: according
>> to this article[1], the author has contacted Bing and that Bing
>> "stated that they use no OSM data whatsoever."
>
>
> This is clearly wrong since Bing have already admitted to use OSM data for
> the blurring of military areas in Germany.
>
> I guess it will be the typical communications cock-up with journalists and
> press officers. The original sentence probably contained a few qualifying
> adjectives which were then omitted in the article.
>
> I think it would, for example, be correct to say that Bing uses no OSM data
> whatsoever *in the US* *in its current product range*" - which is not saying
> that they don't use OSM data elsewhere, as they do for the German blurring,
> and not saying that they don't have any OSM-based products in the pipeline
> or at least in the lab either.
>
> (http://frontdoor.cloudapp.net/ doesn't count - it claims to contribute data
> to OpenStreetMap but it doesn't *use* OSM.)


Is this still running? I believe it requires silverlight so I never
actually saw it first-hand. Either way, Bing concsuming OSM data is
not news...

http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/08/02/bing-maps-adds-open-street-maps-layer.aspx

Toby