[OSM-talk] What can we offer to commercial users?

[Dave F]

I think a major problem in getting a company to adopt/adapt to OSM is 
that there are usually two companies to deal with:
The company that wants a map based website (customer) and the company 
employed to design the website.

As in your case there's already a working map. Once the customer has a 
finished website they're reluctant to go back to the web designers for 
an update as it'll almost certainly incur time & costs.

I've even come across one routing case which used OSM but had been 
programmed poorly by the web designers. The customer was amending OSM 
with false data because, it appeared, they were too scared to ask their 
designer to amend their code.

If OSM want to encourage use of the database and/or base map, it needs 
to focus promotion towards the web designers who can then recommend it 
to their clients, *before* a website is created.

DaveF


On 14/06/2022 13:21, John Whelan wrote:
> The question arises from my need to use a car sharing service.  Their 
> web site displays a zoomable google map but there wasn't really enough 
> detail to see exactly where the car station was.  It was in 
> OpenStreetMap and OSMand allows searching for them, shows and quite 
> happily calculated a route to it.
>
> However the standard OSM web site doesn't show car sharing locations 
> and I'm not certain how much load it would put on the servers anyway.
>
> So we have a great database or map but how can a commercial company 
> make use of it?
>
> Thanks John
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