[OSM-talk] Big sponsors (was: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data)

[SteveC]

On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Ben Last wrote:

> On 18 June 2010 12:19, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Ben Last wrote:
> > Generally "hey, my street's not in the right suburb"
> well at least this one is what I want to capture, super simply, and have a queue to be fixed. Right now we don't capture it _at all_ and it's a tragedy.
>  do you agree?
> 
> Well, fixing it isn't trivial, since there may be a bunch of reasons why it's wrong (or it may not actually be wrong!).  We could store these and forward to OSM, but as has been mentioned, we don't want to bounce our users over to the OSM site (because we don't want them to have to be registered with OSM) and sending such comments programatically is not simple.  But I do agree that it's valuable feedback if there is the capacity to respond to it.

absolutely agreed - but the first step is to collect it, then we will respond to it (I volunteer!)

We can't start arse backward and have a response mechanism and then start collecting it, that makes no sense.


>  > , or "hey, why isn't my street shown?", or "How come your address search doesn't find my house by number?"
> these ones can be at least helpful tertiary to the above, but step one is the above.
> 
> Actually, I think it's the other way around.  The biggest issue with OSM for the use cases that concern me right now is that its usability to locate an address is pretty limited.  Improving that is the single thing ("step one") that would make it better (again, for my use cases).  So having streets with correct names and at least some numbering data helps a lot.

Oh I agree but what I'm saying is that the above case is immediately fixable whereas the latter cases are implicitly fixable, with some more unknown work. See what I mean?



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> Cheers
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> Ben Last
> Development Manager (HyperWeb)
> NearMap Pty Ltd
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Steve

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