[OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Google Maps being "praised" for removing I-5 colasped bridge quickly

Paweł Paprota ppawel at fastmail.fm
Sun May 26 11:03:51 UTC 2013


Well of course when you put "osm" in the search query you will get 
results from OSM.org... but it kind of defeats the purpose - the point 
is to promote OSM to people who don't know about it, isn't it?

On 05/26/2013 12:23 AM, Martin Koppenhöfer wrote:
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> Am 25/mag/2013 um 12:22 schrieb Paweł Paprota <ppawel at fastmail.fm>:
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>> Sure but have you ever seen a link to OSM object (way/relation/node) in the internet?
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> Yes, I noted this because of a misspelled street name, but it also works for correctly spelled ones, if you put osm to the search term you'll see them sooner. Being indexed doesn't of course guarantee that you are in the top results.
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> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=osm+via+roma
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> Cheers,
> Martin
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