[Talk-us] How is Scout?

[Elliott Plack]

Martijn,

I like it so far! It is hard to part ways with Waze but I do like that the
Scout data is all OSM.

Question, I occasionally get some weird routing. Is there a good place to
discuss these things? Here, twitter, etc?

Elliott



On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Martijn van Exel <martijnv at telenav.com>
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> We launched Scout for iOS powered by OpenStreetMap a little over a
> month ago now, followed by the Android version in early June. While
> the feedback in general has been overwhelmingly positive, I am really
> curious to hear about your experiences. Have you tried Scout? What are
> your impressions? Have you given any feedback using the map error
> reporting function in the app?
>
> Nothing major to report from our side. We're looking closely at the
> map feedback coming in through the apps. Our main objective right now
> is to make sure the feedback we get is useful so we can fix OSM based
> on it where necessary. Of course, we would like to involve you in that
> process - either through MapRoulette, or OSM notes, or some other
> means - but right now there is too much 'noise' for that to work
> without us looking at every report first. Which is what we are doing.
> You may see the odd note appear on the map as a result of this. (see
> an example here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/187143)
>
> Some other OSM related things we're working on currently:
> * We are fixing ways in OSM that are marked with fixme=dual
> carriageway (or a variant thereof).
> * We are adding exit_to information to selected stretches of freeway
> * We are working on getting fresh data to Scout users faster
> (currently 2 weeks).
> * I am working on improving MapRoulette - specifically better statistics
>
> As always, feel free to email me directly with questions, feedback or
> concerns!
>
> --
> Martijn van Exel
> OSM data specialist
> Telenav
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