[Talk-us] Retail Example using OSM

[Andrew Wiseman]

It seems like it's a little out of date too, it doesn't include all the
buildings in Washington, DC, which were imported a month or so ago. Maybe
they get a regular dump or something.

In any case, cool to see!

Andrew

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Jack Burke <burkejf3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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