[Osmf-talk] seeking feedback on needs summary

[Mikel Maron]

> >> Many companies have been set up to do this such as CloudMade, Geofabrik and ITO World.
> > 
> > I think it is not correct to say that ITO has been set up to monetise
> > OSM; they have been in business much longer I believe (but Peter will
> > surely comment).
> 
> I am not following the OSM list very well at present so sorry about the delay in replying.
> 
> Re ITO and OSM: OSM is a wonderful source of data and we do offer commercial services that use OSM. You are however correct that ITO was not set up specifically around OSM - we were drawn 
> to it because the commercial mapping was of such low quality for pedestrian routing. We now have to convince more commercial parties over time that they can dare use crowd-sourced mapping 
> which is the next big challenge!

Thanks Peter. Fyi, the document was updated to reflect this.

Cheers
Mikel
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