[Talk-GB] London 2012 tourch relay route

[Craig Loftus]

Tim,

> I have customers with 1000+ trucks around the country between them who are
> extremely interested in the precise location of the torch route for exactly
> this reason. Are you saying that their potential use of OSM is in some way
> invalid?

The rejection of the torch route was not because it was not useful or
interesting, but because it does not fit with what those people see
OSM as trying to achieve.

The torch route is exactly the sort of value-added service a company
such as yours can/should build-on OSM, but that does not mean it has
any place in OSM data.

> While it's clearly ephemeral, in the sense that it is of limited duration -
> so is much geographical data. Weather, for example.

Is weather geographical data? Are you holding that up as an example of
something else that should be in OSM?

Out of interest, is Optrak an OSM consumer? A quick glance shows your
website mentioning OS and Navteq as map providers.

Regards,
Craig

On 7 April 2012 18:19, TimPigden <tim.pigden at optrak.com> wrote:
> While it's clearly ephemeral, in the sense that it is of limited duration -
> so is much geographical data. Weather, for example.
> In this case if you were trying to make deliveries into a town through which
> the torch was been carried, it would make sense to avoid being there at that
> time.
> I have customers with 1000+ trucks around the country between them who are
> extremely interested in the precise location of the torch route for exactly
> this reason. Are you saying that their potential use of OSM is in some way
> invalid?
>
>
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