[OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

[Joseph Reeves]

Presumably there's a cost of the bandwidth used and of maintaining the
servers; running anything approaching a SLA is going to cost.

Microsoft get access to the OSM data the same as anyone else, but they also
get their images vectorised. I don't know if OSM data, or vector data from
their rasters, is of use to them but its a potential bonus. Certainly if I
had a load of images of the world I'd donate them and benefit from some
crowd sourced digitisation.

Joseph
On 4 Apr 2012 19:23, "Lester Caine" <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Matthias Meißer wrote:
>
>> Am 03.04.2012 19:14, schrieb yvecai:
>>
>>> Le 03/04/2012 18:56, Richard Fairhurst a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Pieren wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> we have a "media hype" (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft
>>>>> investing "big dollars" in OSM. [...]
>>>>> Where is the truth here ?
>>>>>
>>>> I'm sure we'd all like to know!
>>>>
>>>> I'm not aware of any announcement being made or (say) any formal contact
>>>> this year between Microsoft and OSMF.
>>>>
>>> As I've seen no new informations in these articles, I'm inclined to
>>> think it's just a hype about the strategy war between the big 3 or
>>> something like that.
>>>
>>
>> Same for me here. I monitor different media streams for OSM press works
>> and it
>> looked very much like a hype. No investigation and nobody checked the
>> informations, just copy.... :(
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**wiki/OpenStreetMap_in_the_**media<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_in_the_media>
>>
>> But nevertheless I would agree that Bing gave us a real boost in mapping
>> countryside etc.
>>
>
> But it's not actually costing them anything? They would be putting the
> images up anyway, so THEY are the only ones who gain by getting back free
> vectorized data?
>
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