[OSM-talk-ie] Dublin.ie Dublin City Community Maps project

[Stephen Judge]

I just posted this feedback on the Dublin.ie Dublin City Community Maps
project http://www.dublin.ie/maps/home.php

I like what you are trying to do here, but in my opinion you are using the
> wrong platform. Building data on top of Google Maps is just handing over
> data to a corporate entity to further their commercial product. If you want
> to really help the community, then encourage the community to build their
> own community map. I am a volunteer mapper for the OpenStreetProject. It is
> an open source, open data alternative to Google Maps and the like. Think of
> Wikipedia, except for maps. Currently our maps of Dublin are far more
> detailed that what Google Maps offers. All data entered onto our maps is
> done so by volunteers and anybody can contribute.
>
> All the data you are now adding to your custom Google Maps, that is only
> benefiting your map and Google, could instead be added to the OpenStreetMap
> and would benefit anyone that builds on the OpenStreetMap data. There are a
> lot of both commercial and non commercial organisations out there using
> OpenStreetMap data for free. I recently got a commitment from Transport for
> Ireland that they will be considering using OpenStreetMap data in their
> next contract for the Journey Planner service, see
> https://twitter.com/TFIupdates/status/522318117520023552.
>
> Please engage with the OpenStreetMap Ireland community of volunteer
> mappers and build a true community map. You can find us here,
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Ireland and on our
> mailing list here, https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
>
> Regards,
> Stephen Judge
>

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