Britain's Ordnance Survey historically represented an example of old guard thinking; building citadels around geographic data - and was an impetus for OSM which itself has started to emerge as a best of breed example of social cartography or um volunteered geographic information. Here's something straight from the top that shows that they are conscious of recent trends in GIS... :
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: martin dodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 10, 2008 4:09 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] Why place matters, slides from Vanessa Lawrence talk To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Just found an interesting set of slides of a talk by Vanessa Lawrence, OS http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/presentations/VL_why_place_matters.pdf with some prominent mentions for OSM. I particularly liked slide 46 cheers martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
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