[OSM-talk] Yahoo Maps to be provided by Nokia

[Aun Johnsen]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

>   On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Paulius Zaleckas <
> paulius.zaleckas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 05/25/2010 02:59 AM, Aun Johnsen wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > Pointing out specific names on roads around guarapari that have been
>> > rendered after I have put them into OSM is about point out all the road
>> > names they render. Also seeing that minor connecting roads that i have
>> > surveyed are identical in Yahoo and OSM while some major roads I havn't
>> > surveyed are equally missing indicates that they have no other reliable
>> > source for their data.
>>
>> Following your provided links I can see that Yahoo has a lot more roads
>> with names than OSM. Have they already switched to Nokia? Copyright info
>> already says it is Navteq(=Nokia). Do you have older screenshot of
>> Yahoo map?
>>
>>
> From my recollection, Yahoo never had its own data in the same way that
> Google has its own data. Yahoo has always had the NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas
> attribution on its road maps base layer (except for the areas where they
> directly use OSM data (and attribute us)).
>

I have no older screenshots, and cannot remember if they have atributed OSM
in that area. The strongest evidence that they have used OSM data in this
area is that thin grey road leading from the coast just south of the city to
the bypass highway a little inland. This is a small local way of low
quality, dirt surface (it is actually earth, no gracel or anything), and is
not usable as a "shortcut".

A
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