[OSM-talk] Foursquare superusers encouraged to directly edit OSM

[Joseph Reeves]

>What am I missing here

A use case may be in Syria. Aid agencies want to know, for example, the
location of bakeries in Syria because these have been targeted during the
ongoing violence over.

Someone may have checked into a bakery on FourSquare at lat=34.716286 &
lon=36.727005. This would then be a location that exists in FourSquare's
DB, but not in the OpenStreetMap base mapping that FourSquare use in their
website. We cannot, for obvious reasons, send people to Syria to map
bakeries, so sources such as FourSquare may be potentially very useful.

The number of locations that exist within FourSquare, but not within OSM,
are numerous. This is especially true outside of Western Europe or the US.

Joseph





On 2 August 2013 14:08, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>>         is there a way to share foursqure data with osm? Do foursquare
>> users
>>         release all
>>         right to entered data to forusquare? If so, then foursquare could
>> (if they
>>         decided so) release that data to OSM community, right?
>>
>
>      ?
>>     "which leads directly to OpenStreetMap’s web editor at the right
>> location,
>>     where they can join OSM and make updates"
>>     They are being signed up directly to OSM ...
>>
>
>  yes, but Valent's question is still interesting: it would be great to have
>> foursquares data released under ODbL or provided with explicit permission
>> to
>> import into osm (but I doubt they are planning to do so in the next time,
>> in the
>> end besides their community the data is their asset).
>>
>
> But we don't want the 'extras' that foursquare add actually on the map.
> The locations they are directing to need to be on the map and that should
> be already available data? What am I missing here :) All of the searches
> I've pulled up appear in the base map. Foursquare are the sort of third
> party use that dovetails in nicely - not that I actually use it ...
>
>
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