[Wikimedia-l] TomTom does a Britannica

[Strainu]

2012/5/29 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> I'm not doubting that someone can take OSM data and make it into
> something usable.  I'm not even doubting that someone *has* taken OSM
> data and made it into something usable.

You obviously have already made up you mind, so I doubt anything I'll
say will change that, but...

>
> But I think the analogy between being able to take OSM data, probably
> add a lot of your own data (espectially for the geolocation
> information, which is fantastic in some locations, and horrible in
> others), and being able to go to en.wikipedia.org and just use it, is
> a very weak analogy.

...if you wanna go this way, I wonder if you "go to en.wikipedia.org
and just use it" if you want to plant tomatoes in your garden. I know
I wouldn't.

Strainu