[pcthrowaway]

As someone who loves OSM (and noticed that you've contributed to it), I'm trying to understand how Placemark fits in.

It seems like a system designed to make it easier for people to create and work with their own geospatial data silos

Does it provide a way to enable users to provide their data to OSM?

edit: this snippet from the comparisons page seems misleading:

> OpenStreetMap provides the map data that you see in Mapbox's base maps, as well as lots of other places on the internet. OpenStreetMap (OSM) allows map editing through the iD editor (which the creator of Placemark also worked on in its early stages), but the OpenStreetMap map is public, shared between everyone, and strictly refers to certain kinds of data like streets and businesses.

OSM includes tons of other types of data, such as natural features, public utilities (e.g. free wifi, water fountains), and much, much more.

[tmcw]

Sure! So OpenStreetMap is great, and there’s a ton of data in it. There will be ways to move data from Placemark to OSM, but the main way to edit OSM will still be specialized editors like iD or JOSM.

As much as OSM contains, though, there are limits - data that isn’t “ground truth,” like planned routes or opinionated data, or geospatial data with private information, or data that’s annotations of particular satellite imagery.

Hope that makes things a little clearer! I was part of the team to create iD, the OSM editor, and am a big fan of OSM - Placemark serves a different purpose.