[OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/7/12 Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>

> Now should there be a all singing and dancing map site based on OSM
> data? Absolutely!
>
> However we've expected that somebody other than (for lack of a better
> term) "core OSM" would take the OSM data and create such a site.
> MapQuest Open and the other sites that have been mentioned are examples
> where that has been done. What hasn't happened is that a larger player
> has gone full in



how large should that "larger" player be? Mapquest is a company founded in
1967 and controlled by AOL since 2000. Whom are we waiting for? Google
(have their own mapmaker), apple (already using OSM to fill the gaps but
giving nothing back, not even attributing correctly), bing (already pushing
osm by donating global aerial imagery but AFAIK not using the data so far
besides the "german military areas incident"), yahoo (they don't even link
their maps from yahoo.com and the first four (!) hits in their own search
for "maps" are "google maps", so not sure how serious they are still into
maps). ESRI?



> the near monopolist at least for online mapping services and maybe we
> have to rethink
>


+1, as someone mentioned above, our traditional role models Navteq and
Teleatlas also changed their strategy and are not mere data providers
anymore.

cheers,
Martin
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