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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Online Maps That Steer You Wrong |
| Date: |
06/30/2005 09:20:01 AM |
| From: |
Anthony Quartararo |
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Bill,
I do know that ESRI & GDT (now TeleAtlas) has something called "community
update" or something akin to that, that would provide a way for locals to
provide for an update cycle and full feedback loop to the OEM via a web
portal. Things like addresses not geocoding, new streets/developments, turn
restrictions. This has the "flavor" of extending the product development
and maintenance to a much wider, and also, a "free" labor force. I am not
sure what the specific details were about how the OEMs would resolve
simultaneous, conflicting updates, and which had a greater confidence index,
metadata, currency, etc. I think it is a great idea, but, I think it was
the LA Times online edition that recently rescinded their "wikinews"
edition, because it quickly disintegrated into an online flamefest and
showcased the lowest common denominators in society. It would likely also
be the case in any type of "wikimap", unless of course, you enforced some
stringent "business rules", but then again, that is counters the point of a
"wikimap" concept. I'm not smart enough to figure that out, but seems like
a great hobby project, I can't see a real revenue stream to support this.
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Bill Thoen
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:55 AM
To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] Online Maps That Steer You Wrong
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 DickBoyd@aol.com wrote:
> Or you could do what Ms. Taub, the computer tutor, recently started doing.
> You could ask for directions.
Gee, how about that? Why does that work so much better? Simple. It's because
the mental maps of locals are always being updated and reinforced by their
daily experiences and interactions with others.
The problem with online maps is that the public cannot update them when they
see mistakes, and the owners can't afford to do it beyond a level that still
falls short. So online maps are constantly slightly out-of-date.
As the Internet and its social implications have become part of our
consciousness, we've seen some interesting synergy when a large group of
people are given the means to interact directly. So why not create a mapping
service that allows two-way flow of mapping information? Why not let the
public add corrections and additions to a map service? Why not build a
WikiMap?
Sure, you'd have to deal with abuse, but you could control updates by not
immediately overwriting the "offical" data, and perhaps ranking conflicting
information by how reliable the source is, how much agreement a chnage gets
from the public, or allowing a user to work with varying levels of
information sources or at least be made aware when "corrections"
exist in the results of his or her query.
Does anyone know if something like this exists yet?
- Bill Thoen
GISnet - www.gisnet.com
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