Commercial Viability of OpenStreetMap SOTM2008

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 If you’re ever near 51.516194024429, -0.12265205383300 please drop in and meet the team