Comments on: OpenStreetMap all grown up and serious.. http://www.edparsons.com/2009/07/openstreetmap-all-grown-up-and-serious/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:32:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Brain Off » The Romantic Mappers of State of the Map :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet http://www.edparsons.com/2009/07/openstreetmap-all-grown-up-and-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-154161 Brain Off » The Romantic Mappers of State of the Map :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:34:09 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=960#comment-154161 [...] Aaron Cope who said “hard to ever imagine a world without Open Street Maps”, Uncle Ed Parsons, and [...] [...] Aaron Cope who said “hard to ever imagine a world without Open Street Maps”, Uncle Ed Parsons, and [...]

]]> By: OSM Business models | edparsons.com http://www.edparsons.com/2009/07/openstreetmap-all-grown-up-and-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-154072 OSM Business models | edparsons.com Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:46:34 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=960#comment-154072 [...] post by Stefan at the United Maps blog, which continues “the now OpenStreetMap has matured and is taken seriously.. what next ? [...] [...] post by Stefan at the United Maps blog, which continues “the now OpenStreetMap has matured and is taken seriously.. what next ? [...]

]]> By: The OpenStreetMap State of The Maps 2009 conference « LocalLab : Foire aux Infos http://www.edparsons.com/2009/07/openstreetmap-all-grown-up-and-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-154067 The OpenStreetMap State of The Maps 2009 conference « LocalLab : Foire aux Infos Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:21:49 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=960#comment-154067 [...] shall not remit OpenStreetMap”, writes “from the do-not-bash-the-crowd-department: Ed Parsons recaps the SOTM ‘09, citing Muki Haklay’s updated comparison of OSM (OpenStreetMap) vs [...] [...] shall not remit OpenStreetMap”, writes “from the do-not-bash-the-crowd-department: Ed Parsons recaps the SOTM ‘09, citing Muki Haklay’s updated comparison of OSM (OpenStreetMap) vs [...]

]]> By: Rodolphe Devillers http://www.edparsons.com/2009/07/openstreetmap-all-grown-up-and-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-154063 Rodolphe Devillers Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:45:03 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=960#comment-154063 Ed, There is no doubt that community generated geodata is a reality and it is not surprising that quality issues start to be a concern for some people and it actually shows that these data start to be used by people! A student at the last International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality actually said that he measured the spatial accuracy of some data from OpenStreetMap and noticed that they were much better than some governmental dataset sold in his country! The main issue yet with data from Open Street Map is really on the heterogeneity of the coverage. If you live in London or New York you can get great data but try to go away from the main centers and in some remote regions and it gets quickly terrible. It may just be a matter of time but this is something relatively new as we were used to government data that had the same requirements (outside of updating rate and sometime accuracy) for an entire country, while this gets very heterogeneous. We are then going in the right direction but these data should still be handled with care for important uses... Ed,

There is no doubt that community generated geodata is a reality and it is not surprising that quality issues start to be a concern for some people and it actually shows that these data start to be used by people!

A student at the last International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality actually said that he measured the spatial accuracy of some data from OpenStreetMap and noticed that they were much better than some governmental dataset sold in his country!

The main issue yet with data from Open Street Map is really on the heterogeneity of the coverage. If you live in London or New York you can get great data but try to go away from the main centers and in some remote regions and it gets quickly terrible. It may just be a matter of time but this is something relatively new as we were used to government data that had the same requirements (outside of updating rate and sometime accuracy) for an entire country, while this gets very heterogeneous.

We are then going in the right direction but these data should still be handled with care for important uses…

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