[OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq
Iván Sánchez Ortega
ivan at sanchezortega.es
Mon Feb 1 23:13:30 GMT 2010
El Lunes, 1 de Febrero de 2010, 80n escribió:
> It is right that we are all concentrating on creation of content. But,
> what we haven't had yet is any commercial map data consumers telling us
> what they need. Well, in a way, maybe Nav4All is telling us what it
> needs... and I sometimes hear Cloudmade banging on about routing.
The problem with this is the "sofixit" response.
OSM works like many other open-source projects, where someone says: "Hey, X is
bad" - and a developer replies "Yeah, and this is open source, so fix it".
The OSM community works the same way. I'm not going to work for a company just
because they ask for it very nicely. Dammit, if a company wants me to fix OSM
in some way, I could as well get paid for that!
Maybe the time is coming for the business model in where I get OSM data, fork
it, fix it in some way, and stamp a "certified technicial-approved version"
on the cover. For just a couple grand.
You want OSM to comply with certain quality standards? Well, either invest in
that, or pay for that. But it's not gonna magically come from the users.
Cheers,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja.
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