Comments on: NetSquared Conference 2008 http://highearthorbit.com/netsquared-conference-2008/ Transmitting ideas, observations, and images from 42,000 km. Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: James Fee http://highearthorbit.com/netsquared-conference-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-181981 James Fee Wed, 28 May 2008 19:11:03 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/netsquared-conference-2008/#comment-181981 Given how bad the Google/Microsoft maps are, NOLA is a great place for OSM to put efforts (beyond just helping a city recover).

]]> By: Andrew http://highearthorbit.com/netsquared-conference-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-181966 Andrew Wed, 28 May 2008 18:36:44 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/netsquared-conference-2008/#comment-181966 The OpenStreetMap data from most of the US is from the TIGER/Line data and is potentially bad or old in many areas – New Orleans especially. The reason I chose to use it in this prototype was to show the potential of the community to create and correct their local infrastructure data and make it free and open to use for printing and any use.

Hopefully we can encourage local citizens to correct the OSM data either through the Web editor (PotLatch) or actually using GPS units and the more powerful desktop tools. It’s important to get locals to do this and not necessarily rely on “it will happen at somepoint”

So, by putting the current OSM in front of users, so they can be aware of the dataset and also see the errors, they’ll hopefully follow-up by correcting it.

Or perhaps we need to convince SteveC to host a mapping part in NO. :)

]]> By: James Fee http://highearthorbit.com/netsquared-conference-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-181960 James Fee Wed, 28 May 2008 18:22:25 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/netsquared-conference-2008/#comment-181960 What was the argument to using OSM maps for the mapping application. We ran into some serious problems with the accuracy of the data. I’d love to use OSM over GMap so did someone go out and fix the roads?

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