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

[Alex Barth]

> The main point was that the material 'added' to osm is properly licensed
to osm. I'd not considered that there would be substantial POI data in
foursquare that was not already present in some format in osm. This may be
a 'country' facet since I'm only looking at UK data and certainly dumping
foursqaure data into the UK would hit a substantial number of existing
locations? In other countries this may not be the case and may be worth the
exercise if more detailed material is not otherwise available?

Exactly, in some countries the map is sparser so there's going to be more
incentives to jump in and improve. E. g. it will be interesting to keep an
eye on Brazil here.


On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Alex Barth wrote:
>
>>     They are being signed up directly to OSM ...
>>
>> Any user coming from Foursquare has to actually create their own account
>> manually if they don't have one yet, just like anyone else. (Not sure if
>> this is
>> what you were getting at.)
>>
>
> That was what I was saying poorly :)
> The main point was that the material 'added' to osm is properly licensed
> to osm. I'd not considered that there would be substantial POI data in
> foursquare that was not already present in some format in osm. This may be
> a 'country' facet since I'm only looking at UK data and certainly dumping
> foursqaure data into the UK would hit a substantial number of existing
> locations? In other countries this may not be the case and may be worth the
> exercise if more detailed material is not otherwise available?
>
>
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