[OSM-talk] Bad (wrong?) OSM publicity?

Pēteris Krišjānis pecisk at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 06:37:17 BST 2012


Sounds like nice smear from competition, except it can be truth and
wrong in same time - it's very old data, first, it's not all OSM.

Nice try tough.


Peter.

P , 2012-09-24 23:32 -0600, Martijn van Exel rakstīja:
> From https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/technology/apple-maps-errors-send-japanese-to-homegrown-app.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y&_r=0moc.semityn.www
> 
> "The biggest problem with Apple’s map, Mapion’s Mr. Yamagishi said, is
> that much of its data appears to be drawn from OpenStreetMap Japan, a
> Wikipedia-like service that contains a lot of incorrect and outdated
> information."
> 
> 1) Is Apple using OSM data for Japan?
> 2) If they are, I can't believe this is a correct statement.
> 





More information about the talk mailing list