[Talk-us] How is Scout?

[Boze]

Although I don't use it for navigation purposes, it is very cool to have an
OSM routing application in my pocket. The ability to play around with an
OSM routing engine so easily has caused me to:

1) Identify and fix roads OSM believes are connected that are in fact not
and remove them
2) Identify and fix roads OSM believes are not connected that in fact are

Playing with a routing engine really makes it easy (and fun?) for you to go
"huh, that's not right... what is going on here?", look in OSM, and find
something to fix. My neighborhood is especially complex, so I look forward
to telling Lyft drivers to use Scout rather than Apple/Google maps if they
actually wan't to find their way to my house!

I guess my only 'negative' feedback is that the lag between me fixing
something and actually getting to test the updated routing in Scout. It
would be nice to know the update schedule for the routing engine or to
receive a notification when the routing engine has received an update. For
example, I might not use Scout because I know a particular route it is
providing is incorrect and is a result of OSM data being out of data in
Scout. This is more from the perspective of the feedback loop of an OSM
contributor and not your standard Scout user I suppose. However, if Scout
is helping me identify issues with OSM, "normal" Scout users should be able
to take advantage of the updates the community has made based on the
routing engine.

Daniel Bozeman

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Martijn van Exel <martijnv at telenav.com>
wrote:

> Elliott - if it's not OSM specific but more Scout specific, it's
> probably best to email me directly. I can make sure that the right
> people are notified if there's a bug.
>
> Martijn
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
> >> http://www.osm.org/user/mvexel
> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mvexel
> >> http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?mvexel
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Talk-us mailing list
> >> Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Elliott Plack
> > http://about.me/elliottp
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Talk-us mailing list
> > Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
> >
>
>
>
> --
> --
> Martijn van Exel
> OSM data specialist
> Telenav
> http://www.osm.org/user/mvexel
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mvexel
> http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?mvexel
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-us mailing list
> Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20140623/8cc0f2ce/attachment.html>