Re:OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble
by yellowbkpk on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:45AM
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Hello. I am the creator of alltheplaces and Max is absolutely correct. Alltheplaces is a bunch of scrapers right now because it was the fastest way to get the data, but if you have data in a machine readable format already then I don't have to scrape it. I can just download your data file and distribute it to whomever wants to use it (people interested in importing to OSM, geocoders/search engines, etc.).
I was suggesting it as an alternative open distribution channel that was less concerned with details.