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

[Stefan Keller]

Hi Lester

I think, an initial approach would be, that foursquare would offer a
subset of their data to OSM with the purpose that mappers can
integrate this data into OSM.
So the primary POI will be clean OSM data by definition.
Obviously there could be duplicates which would be an interesting
challenge to sort from the original foursquare database out before
offering this to as list to OSM.

Yours, Stefan


2013/8/2 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk>:
> Kathleen Danielson wrote:
>>
>> Even though this thread isn't about bringing foursquare data into OSM (I
>> have no
>> idea what, if any, conversations around that have been held), we should
>> definitely take note that there is an almost parallel community of
>> extremely
>> like-minded editors out there, and we would be lucky to have them join our
>> community. We should engage with them and share knowledge!
>
>
> When adding a new POI location, my own starting point is to establish the
> correct position on OSM, and add the address details so that routing can
> find the postcode, and then use the location as a tag for the third party
> links. If we promote this process with the likes of foursquare, then the
> primary POI will be clean OSM data? It does not matter where in the world
> you are ...
>
>
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