Commercial Viability of OpenStreetMapSOTM2008

Who am I?

property search engine

prime meridian

me

Why should you care?

Sponsor

second year in a row!

Why should you care?

First commercial use of OSM

parallel version of nestoria

$url =~ s/www/openstreetmap/;

www.nestoria.co.uk/chelsea

openstreetmap.nestoria.co.uk/chelsea

We love data

GeoRSS, KML, hListing, widgets…

We want to use and help OSM more…

also a business….

as a means for us to make money.

We want to use and help OSM more…

Main barrier to use of OSM

comprehensiveness

Main barrier to use of OSM

usability

Example:How do we get the name, lng, lat of all metro stations in Germany?

Should be a 15 minute project

Most valuable resource:

our time

(especially engineering time)

OSM needs to be simpler

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

Learn more

http://blog.nestoria.co.uk

Thanks

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please drop in and meet the team