Comment on Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMapparentComments−michaelt1moPresumably they hope to provide richer data (i.e. photograph of the library) that OSM isn't interested in.−zaik1moOSM is interested in pictures, even of bookcases:https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:imageThe only difficulty is data than can not be easily represented in key=value pairs, such as timetables for buses. But even this can be resolved by adding external references.
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Presumably they hope to provide richer data (i.e. photograph of the library) that OSM isn't interested in.
OSM is interested in pictures, even of bookcases:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:image
The only difficulty is data than can not be easily represented in key=value pairs, such as timetables for buses. But even this can be resolved by adding external references.