[Talk-il] Waze?

[Moshe Sayag]

The map is growing pretty fast.
A year or so ago It was almost empty and today most of the main roads
are drawn and some cities are almost fully covered.
As far as I can tell, the size of the community is still small but I
hope we are getting closer and closer to the critical mass of data,
when it becomes useful enough for "regular" people, gaining popularity
and attracting more contributors.

Until then, I'll keep record and tag my tracks, and drive the longer
ways, if they are not yet mapped :)

Moshe

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Oh well, figured something like that. Guess we know what model is going to be sustainable!
>
> Btw, looks like the Israel map has been growing rapidly. What's the current state of things? Possibly on track to finish soon?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Moshe Sayag <msayag at gmail.com>
> To: Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>
> Cc: talk-il at openstreetmap.org
> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:52:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Talk-il] Waze?
>
> Waze is related to Ehud Shabtai (I think he's the CTO), who is the
> owner/manager of freemap.co.il, and Waze is based on the geo-data that
> was collected in freemap.
> The problem is that the data is collected and contributed by the
> public and the generated map is free, but not the row data behind it.
> In short, the maps are "driver generated" but are not "shared" and
> definitely not  "driver owned".
>
> We had long discussions about it before, here and at the freemap
> forum. Ehud refused to open the data so I refused to donate mine.
>
> These 2 projects are running in parallel due to licenses mismatch, and
> will stay so as long as freemap/maze is not really free.
>
> Moshe
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Waze is an Israeli company "building the world's first driver generated live maps and real-time
>> "road intelligence" platform to enable drivers to share and consume
>> real-time road intelligence".
>>
>> There collecting GPS traces from drivers, making maps. Wonder about the possibilities for cooperation with OpenStreetMap.
>>
>> Anyone interested in making an inquiry?
>>
>> http://www.waze.com/
>> http://www.waze.co.il
>>
>> Best
>> Mikel
>>
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