Episode 56: Wikimania 2008, Day 2 Roundup
Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, James Forrester discuss the day’s activities in detail, among a rambunctuous crowd, including an interview with Phil Birken about flagged revisions. OpenStreetMaps, Wikipedia’s stats relating to the news, and a few corrections.
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The OpenStreetmap information is horribly out of date. It’s sad that the presenters sound so pompous and superior when discussing other ‘lesser’ collaborative projects. The server information is completely wrong, and amusingly the details of the servers are available on the OSM wiki.
Comment by Kyle Gordon — July 24, 2008 @ 11:05 am
Wow, this is a great episode. The commentary about FlaggedRevs is excellent. Thank you Phil Birken! James Forrester is very good too. Overall, really solid.
Comment by pfctdayelise — July 25, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Brianna, thanks for the compliment! Kyle, hopefully we can get some folks from OpenStreetMap to come on the podcast to talk more about the project sometime.
Comment by Andrew Lih — July 28, 2008 @ 8:18 am
As far a accuracy goes, Delorme Streets data is NOT that accurate too. As a truck driver using Delorme daily logging 2500+ miles of roads weekly and uploading to OpenStreetMap, I can tell the one of the best commercial datasets is NOT that accurate. It’s good however it too does have every little nook and cranny. I end up adding local roads to for my use daily. The sad part is Delorme has no EZ to use facility for updating it’s data. Even if they did provide such a facility, why in the world would users help update a closed dataset that only going to be resold back to them? No matter what anyone says about OpenStreetMap, eventually it will be the most up to date dataset there is because once the majority of roads are added, they don’t change much.
Comment by Pete G — September 1, 2008 @ 2:46 pm