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OpenStreetMap license change completesOpenStreetMap license change completesPosted Sep 14, 2012 19:05 UTC (Fri) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)In reply to: OpenStreetMap license change completes by robert_s Parent article: OpenStreetMap license change completes
>> (and my satnav covers the whole of Europe and I *have* used it to navigate through the entire continent and not had a problem with it)"
> I think you've been lucky. I've had some pretty mad suggestions from both satnavs and google maps.
TomTom has led me onto a "path" where my car got stuck in the mud due to lack of solid ground. Google Maps still connects ways in my home town where there is no connection and 50m height difference. TomTom stubbornly tries to route me through a police-only fenced off entrance onto a motorway. It is not as if "commercial" data were flawless. And an upgrade for Europe map data is 50€! Nahh.
As for routing, I recommend you check out http://map.project-osrm.org/ and test a route ("street housenumber, city"), and drag the markers around and set via markers. OSM data, and beautifully FAST. REAL FAST. :-). And Open Source.
As for postcode searching, I just entered the 5 digits of my German home town into the standard OSM search box and it found it exactly. Same for the Swiss town I currently live in.
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OpenStreetMap license change completes Posted Sep 14, 2012 19:47 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
you don't have one of the tom-tom models that lets you record errors and send them in? (or you have the use of such user supplied data disabled?)
OpenStreetMap license change completes Posted Sep 15, 2012 9:57 UTC (Sat) by hholzgra (subscriber, #11737) [Link]
For post codes we luckily had a source to import from (center points first, polygons later). The polygon import was not perfect and data needs a lot of manual adjustments as it has random offsets of ~200-300m, but at least for cities that only have a single post code this is usually good enough.
In the UK otoh Royal Mail was seriously fighting such imports for copyright reasons, so there all data needs to be collected manually ...
OpenStreetMap license change completes Posted Sep 16, 2012 14:21 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Copyright? What a weird use of it.
OpenStreetMap license change completes Posted Sep 17, 2012 17:50 UTC (Mon) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
Technically they were trying to use what are called in the UK "Database rights" rather than copyright.
They did this because they make money by selling this data to commercial entities and wanted to protect their revenue stream.
OpenStreetMap license change completes Posted Sep 15, 2012 21:25 UTC (Sat) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]
even worse: Google Maps plots a route to the nearest point reachable by car, which in one case was in the middle of a railway tunnel, where cars are transported on trains through that tunnel. Some 1000 m elevation difference and some 2 km distance, ridiculous.
OpenStreetMap license change completes Posted Sep 16, 2012 12:24 UTC (Sun) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
> even worse: Google Maps plots a route to the nearest point reachable by car, which in one case was in the middle of a railway tunnel, where cars are transported on trains through that tunnel. Some 1000 m elevation difference and some 2 km distance, ridiculous.
Hilarious, yet so do most OSM-based navigators. So you could easily end up in the same situation with navit, osmand, and what else there is...
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