[OSM-talk] Wow, Google Maps now has detailed maps for North Korea!

[christian.pietzsch@googlemail.com]

I think it's mostly because of its popularity and the second thing is that
MapMaker seems easier to handle than the OSM editing tools.

I read about this a few minutes ago and as I  compared GMaps with OSM i
couldn't stand that they mapped the party founding monument more precisely.
So I decided to change this. =)


2013/1/29 Johan C <osmned at gmail.com>

> I still wonder why volunteers would contribute to a closed map instead of
> an open map. I agree Google is good in PR for Mapmaker. The question is how
> we will have good PR for OSM, with the goal to attract more active mappers.
> This might be a challenge for the CWG though. First brainstorm idear from
> this non-CWG-er: invite some magazines to compare Mapmaker to OSM
>
> Cheers, Johan
>
> Op dinsdag 29 januari 2013 schreef Gregory (nomoregrapes at googlemail.com)
> het volgende:
>
> >
> >
> > On 29 January 2013 13:03, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> >>
> >> ok,
> >>
> >> There is very good Bing imagery over Phyongyang.
> >>
> >> What do you think, if we define a OSM Task Manager Job and ask OSM
> contributors to map this in a few days. Then we write to the media and say
> : watch us!
> >>
> >>
> >> Pierre
> >
> > If you task manager it, post a link and I'll spend tomorrow's lunch
> break editing instead of reading about OpenStreetMap!
> > Back to work now...
> > --
> > Gregory
> > osm at livingwithdragons.com
> > http://www.livingwithdragons.com
>
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