It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map

Re:It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map by rmc on Monday February 03, 2014 @10:35AM (#7171114)

> * OSM cannot (or refuses to) make use of high-quality bulk data from outside, regardless of how that data was licensed. *

There is actually not a lot of "high quality bulk data" out there. What datasets are you thinking of?

Remember OSM is "open data", so you can't import propriatary data. Some bulk datasets might not allow commerical reuse, or might forbid derivative works (i.e. no-one can change it).

> OSM requires contributors to manually trace shapes in their weird browser app

There are many editors. iD is the browser app. There's JOSM a desktop, advanced app. And you can always upload raw data via the API.

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Re:It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map by Brakenshire on Monday February 03, 2014 @06:32PM (#7174348)

OSM is constantly importing bulk data sets, anyway. For instance, in the UK the NAPTAN database was imported, giving the location and reference codes for all public transport stops. Postcode (like ZIP code) data is imported from a monthly building sales data release. I noticed the other day that Northern France suddenly has all buildings marked, because of some government data import. There are bulk data imports happening every week somewhere in the world.

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Re:It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map by Doctor_Fegg on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @02:59AM (#7176083)

Just for the record - NAPTAN wasn't consistently imported in the UK; we tried for a few counties and found it wasn't that great. The UK is probably the most import-hostile national community in OSM (and also, after Germany, probably the most successful in building the map; up to you whether you see a coincidence there!).

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