[Talk-GB] Surveying rural buildings

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jul 24, 2020, 12:46 by rob at hubris.org.uk:

> On 23/07/2020 10:55, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB wrote:
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>> Jul 23, 2020, 11:49 by forums at david-woolley.me.uk:
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>>  On 23/07/2020 10:12, Nick wrote:
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>>  Do we actually know what the general public use OSM for?
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>>  My impression is that the target for a lot of the material in OSM is
>>  professional users of maps, rather than the general public.
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>> I would say that most of use by general public is indirect - from location
>> maps in a bus, through maps on mapy.cz/Osmand/FB/Snapchat/Uber/Maps.me
>> to indirectly benefiting from use of OSM data in various
>> plans/analysis/scientific research.
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> I though Uber used Google, which would explain a couple of comical
> misdirections to somewhere near-ish to my destination, which I could
> replicate later on in Google.
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I have seen reports that they changed map source in app
(I never used Uber) - it may be also Android vs iPhone or
deployed only for limited testing

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