[Talk-us] Retail Example using OSM

[Jack Burke]

I'll be out on a limb and say that the reason is because they know not all locations for a particular business are mapped in OSM and so they don't want to rely on OSM for the actual locations. 

Which begs the question of why Where 2 Get It doesn't edit OSM themselves to add the locations (which I will answer by saying that W2GI knows that they aren't familiar enough with all the areas to do it properly).

-jack


On December 22, 2014 10:44:12 AM EST, Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> wrote:
>
>On Dec 22, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
>
>> The company providing the service is Where 2 Get It (
>http://www.where2getit.com/ ).  They provide maps for store locator
>functions for a number of companies.  For example: Moe's Southwest
>Grill, Safeway, Trader Joe's, Jo-Ann Fabric, Michael's.  OSM is used
>for the base map with the store location placemarks as an overlay.  You
>can tell that they are not utilizing the OSM data for the store
>locations because if you look closely you can see that their placemarks
>don't always line up with the actual locations of the stores in OSM.
>> 
>> --Peter
>> 
>I had noticed that the nearest Michael's to me had the pin in the wrong
>part of the shopping center (I am the one that mapped that Michael's
>location for OSM and am pretty sure I have it right).
>
>Just looked at the Trader Joe's web site and it looks like they are
>using background map data from NAVTEQ. But they also have the store
>nearest me in the wrong location. :)
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