[Talk-us-massachusetts] FYI:Edits by Amazon

[Greg Troxel]

"Alan & Ruth Bragg" <alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com> writes:

> I was looking at WHODIDIT https://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/
>  for changes in my area and noticed a driveway linking the street to a
> house located behind other houses.
> The edit by Amazon Logistics was valid and probably supports their delivery
> operations.
> The user's home page had this statement.
>
> "I work for Amazon Logistics
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Amazon_Logistics>. At Amazon
> Logistics, we’ve been utilizing OSM in some cases related to our delivery
> programs. In connection with those delivery programs, we have collected
> information that we think is valuable to the OSM community such as names
> and info about new roads that are not currently in the map today, new data
> on turn restrictions, and road connectivity, to name a few. When we hear
> feedback, we’ve been editing to provide that information for the benefit of
> the entire OSM user community. If you have more questions, please contact
> osm-edit-escalations at amazon.com "

Interesting.  For things on public roads, fair enough.

I wonder what their customers think about amazon entering mapping data
from observations while on non-public roads for the purpose of delivery.