[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis updated with new OS Locator data and a review of progress to date

[Peter Miller]

On 9 June 2011 13:31, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> Peter Miller <peter.miller at ...> writes:
>
>>>>I have not used commercial mapping while creating the map,  but some
>>>>errors in Navteq, TeleAtlas and AA naming locally have subsequently
>>>>come to my attention subsequently and I see no reason why these should
>>>>not be in also included in not:name.
>
>>>That makes it harder to argue independent creation if for any reason
>>>our map starts to closely resemble Navteq's and they allege copying.
>>
>>I hear your concern.
>
>>You will notice that I hadn't added that information and am not
>>rushing to do us.
>
> OK.  I may have made the common mistake of confusing the discussion of an
> action on the mailing list with the performance of that action.
>
> Can we agree, then, that it's a bad idea to tag anything in OSM that comes
> directly from proprietary maps such as Navteq - even if minor things like
> notes of errors in the other map - and so for any check of OS Locator versus
> OSM, we don't need to worry about not:name tags that might have been added for
> Navteq, because there won't be any.
>

Fine by me.

> Thanks again (to you and your employees) for your work on these comparisons.

We are enjoying it loads. When we started supporting OSM there were
3,000 contributors and there are now 100 times that number!
Unbelievable. When we started we were worrying about trunk roads and
now we are worrying about voltages on power lines and the exact
location of shipping buoys. Unbelievable.

The real heros are of course the folk out there who are doing the foot
work (and indeed the armchair work ;)  and who argue out all the
tagging standards and do everything else that keep the wheels on this
thing.


Regards,


Peter

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