Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7586789.stm We're also in the Daily Mail (eek)[1]: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1050408/Is-satnav-turning-dunces-map-reading.html cheers Richard [1] for our overseas readers, this is possibly the most reactionary

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tim Dobson wrote: Perhaps the people who are nearish the top of OSM, and I feel sheepish that I don't really know who I'm talking about, might like to put out a pressrelease or press statement about how OSM is helping put *real* maps back on the internet and allow cool mashups etc. I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread John McKerrell
On 29 Aug 2008, at 09:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7586789.stm I was glad to see the BBC had actually linked to us, wonder if that'll get any good number of new mappers. We're also in the Daily Mail (eek)[1]:

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 12:31 +0100, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Tim Dobson wrote: Whereas Ordnance Survey maps were designed for the military, and churches were added simply as useful landmarks, No one here seems to have mentioned that the reason that on-line maps aren't as good as OS

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

2008-08-29 Thread Gregory
The London Mapping Marathons don't seem to be doing much press contacting, but Croydon's local newspapers seem to be hunting us down about when we visited there on Wednesday. I wonder if we're just not represented enough. I watched the BBC clip on their article, and okay the guy was very