SOTM08
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This document discusses the commercial viability of using OpenStreetMap data. It describes a property search engine company that has sponsored OpenStreetMap conferences for two years and has created a parallel version of their site using OpenStreetMap data instead of proprietary map data. The main barriers to using OpenStreetMap data more widely are its lack of comprehensiveness and usability, such as difficulty extracting location data like metro station names and coordinates for a country. The company wants to help make contributing and extracting data from OpenStreetMap easier to improve its viability for commercial and other uses.
SOTM08
- 1. Commercial Viability of OpenStreetMap SOTM2008
- 2. Who am I?
- 6. Why should you care?
- 7. Sponsor
- 9. second year in a row!
- 12. Why should you care?
- 13. First commercial use of OSM
- 14. parallel version of nestoria $url =~ s/www/openstreetmap/;
- 17. We love data GeoRSS, KML, hListing, widgets… We want to use and help OSM more…
- 18. also a business…. as a means for us to make money. We want to use and help OSM more…
- 19. Main barrier to use of OSM comprehensiveness
- 21. Main barrier to use of OSM usability
- 22. Example: How do we get the name, lng, lat of all metro stations in Germany? Should be a 15 minute project
- 24. Most valuable resource: our time (especially engineering time)
- 25. OSM needs to be simpler
- 26. We want to be part of the solution Will sponsor work to make data entry and data extraction easier.* * we’re a poor start up
- 28. Thanks If you’re ever near 51.516194024429, -0.12265205383300 please drop in and meet the team