[OSM-talk] Congratulations, community. was: Cloudmade routing

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/1 Gregory Williams <gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk>
>>
>> "B" over each end of the bridge. So, my guess is that the bridge isn't in
>> Cloudmade's underlying routing data for some reason.
>
> +1. Looking on other places on the map I guess the data is at least 1 week
> old.

Martin's comment above made me think about how participating in
OpenStreetMap has changed my perspective.  That we can look at a map
and observe that the data is perhaps one week out of date is amazing
to me. I can't imagine saying / hearing that before my participation
in OSM.  Look at what the OpenStreetMap community has done for us and
to us!  We expect perfection.  :-)

So if, in fact, CloudMade has week-old data that is giving sub-optimal
routing results in this case, I think that we should congratulate
ourselves and them.  Look at how much we have come to expect from our
maps.  We must be doing something right.