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by sp8962 6y ago
To answer the question: no. OpenStreetMap is constantly evolving in many dimensions. A fully fledged editor requires a significant investment to remain current (think at least one FTE).
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by sp8962 6y ago
It isn't a big business by many orders of magnitude. The only businesses that over the years have been able to offer tile hosting as a sustainable business are very small mum and pop shops. The large players are naturally not intereste
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by sp8962 6y ago
Except that both MS (Bing) and Apple use OSM. Not all over the place and not for all purposes, but they do and it isn't a secret.
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by sp8962 7y ago
See https://github.com/PlazaRoute for a preprocessing solution that is routing engine agnostic.
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by sp8962 7y ago
a) there are more than enough companies that would be willing to provide that as a service. Any larger country will simply be very big depending on the maximum zoom level (there is a reason why most tile service providers don't pre-ren
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by sp8962 7y ago
> iD's position was earned. I was there, as we worked through months of community process and testing and adjustments to acquire the near-impossible consensus that the OpenStreetMap community desired. Saying that it replaced P2 &quo
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by sp8962 7y ago
OK, this is going to be longish. While OSM is similar to Wikipedia in many aspects, it is very different in others. In particular while both movements have a supporting formal body, in the case of Wikipedia the WMF, for OSM the OSMF, that r
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by sp8962 8y ago
Even that is not really comparable. The WMF does not actually have any members, and only has a superficial pseudo democratic shim (if that is good or bad is a different discussion though). The "alarm" is caused because concerted a
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by sp8962 10y ago
Nice demo, but it would be even nicer if you could get the blooper fixed: "Mapbox's Openstreetmap" MapBox is an active and respected participant in the OpenStreetMap project and uses our data in some of its products, but that
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by sp8962 10y ago
There are multiple commercial providers of services based on OpenStreetMap data, see for example: https://switch2osm.org/providers/ Further there are multiple on device routing and rendering solutions available so you
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by sp8962 10y ago
Except, naturally, that openstreetmap.org is mainly aimed at OSM contributors, which typically are actually changing the data and by that invalidating the tiles created for our standard style (which update in minutes). See: https:/&#x
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by sp8962 10y ago
Having buildings is definitely not a prerequisite for mapping addresses (when I go mapping I will typically and them before too, but again that is only a minor amount of time compared to actually gathering the data). Mass mapping buildings
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by sp8962 10y ago
The fallacy in the concept we're discussing here is assuming that OpenStreetMap is being held back by the speed with which we can add infrastructure geometry (I'm specifically excluding mass doodling of buildings as that is a topi
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by sp8962 11y ago
There are plenty of QA tools available including such which show data that is stale. It is true that very large multi-polygons can be hard to edit however they tend to be exclusively used for modelling large landuse areas and administrative
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by sp8962 11y ago
I would suggest help.openstreetmap.org or one of the itc channels http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC for support. The in-browser editor iD is really easy to use, however currently does not work with IE.
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by sp8962 11y ago
Besides Photon there is Mapzen search that provides search as you type. Naturally comparing with google is a bit apples and oranges, on the one hand a company that purchases essentially all its data and spends billions on its mapping depart
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by sp8962 11y ago
As to adding addresses/doors: simply do it on location with Go Map! (iOS) or Vespucci (Android), real easy particularly if you added building outlines before or they are already there. Mapillary (mapillary.com) offers StreetView simila
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by sp8962 11y ago
OSRM provides a distance matrix API https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/wiki/Server-api ("table"). All open source, if you don't want to run it yourself, you can turn to a commercial s