Commercial Viability of OpenStreetMap

1. Commercial Viability of OpenStreetMap SOTM2008

2. Who am I?

3. property search engine

5. prime meridian me

6. Why should you care?

7. Sponsor

9. second year in a row!

12. Why should you care?

13. First commercial use of OSM

14. parallel version of nestoria $url =~ s/www/openstreetmap/;

15. www.nestoria.co.uk/chelsea openstreetmap.nestoria.co.uk/chelsea

17. We love data GeoRSS, KML, hListing, widgets… We want to use and help OSM more…

18. also a business…. as a means for us to make money. We want to use and help OSM more…

19. Main barrier to use of OSM comprehensiveness

21. Main barrier to use of OSM usability

22. Example: How do we get the name, lng, lat of all metro stations in Germany? Should be a 15 minute project

24. Most valuable resource: our time (especially engineering time)

25. OSM needs to be simpler

26. 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

27. Learn more http://blog.nestoria.co.uk

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