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> I know very little about the space, but couldn't Overture members focus primarily on just filling in those gaps? That's not enough. OSM doesn't offer every k
by plonk 4y ago
> I know very little about the space, but couldn't Overture members focus primarily on just filling in those gaps?
That's not enough. OSM doesn't offer every kind of data you'd want about an area, it's sometimes not even remotely aligned to other databases or images, it needs to be compared to what other APIs provide to get a result with high quality. This project sounds like it's trying to make these things way easier.
> The map isn't the territory. Consistency with reality is what matters, not what Google says.
Absolutely not if you look at other applications than navigation services. This is _not_ only about Google Maps, it's about their API. See for example the elevation API [1], which gives you an altitude above sea level for any point on earth. This is meant to be combined with other data to build various services. Having alternatives to Google that use a standard format and are generally interoperable is great for developers.
[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/overview https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/elevation/o...
- ghaff 4y ago>OSM doesn't offer every kind of data you'd want about an area For various reasons, a neighbor and I were looking at some property data in both our town's and the MassGIS databases. Our town had info not in the public MassGIS database and both had more information than either OSM or Google Maps. This was all public information and you can argue about how much should be readily available but it already is for anyone sophisticated enough to know where to look.
- plonk 4y agoThere is a lot of region-specific data that isn't in OSM. Governments (at national and regional level) often have records that have not been integrated into big services for example. If this project could let all these services interoperate better, that would be a great advance.