Re: [Talk-GB] "the brilliant and constantly improving Wikipedia of maps"
Hi The following was in today's Guardian paper in the G2 section. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/shortcuts/2013/apr/28/new-cartography-making-mountains-hills Regards Dudley ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] "the brilliant and constantly improving Wikipedia of maps"
Great however the OSM referenced has been shoehorned in there (not complaining though), as the cartographers mentioned finding the new 2000ft "mountain" just seemed to use Ordinance Surveynotably the wrong height appears on OSM and not updated. :( http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.81021&lon=-2.60709&zoom=16&layers=M -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Re-the-brilliant-and-constantly-improving-Wikipedia-of-maps-tp5759027p5759062.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] "the brilliant and constantly improving Wikipedia of maps"
On 29 Apr 2013 22:01, "Rovastar" wrote: > > Great however the OSM referenced has been shoehorned in there (not > complaining though), as the cartographers mentioned finding the new 2000ft > "mountain" just seemed to use Ordinance Surveynotably the wrong height > appears on OSM and not updated. :( > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.81021&lon=-2.60709&zoom=16&layers=M > What's with the feet, I thought 'ele' was supposed to be in metres? Kevin ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] "the brilliant and constantly improving Wikipedia of maps"
Nice find, I've contacted them to ask if they would like to add them to OSM, or publish the measurements somewhere under the ODBL. Regards, Tom On 30 April 2013 08:05, Kevin Peat wrote: > > On 29 Apr 2013 22:01, "Rovastar" wrote: > > > > Great however the OSM referenced has been shoehorned in there (not > > complaining though), as the cartographers mentioned finding the new > 2000ft > > "mountain" just seemed to use Ordinance Surveynotably the wrong > height > > appears on OSM and not updated. :( > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.81021&lon=-2.60709&zoom=16&layers=M > > > > What's with the feet, I thought 'ele' was supposed to be in metres? > > Kevin > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
