I have welcomed the release of Ordnance Survey open data especially Street View. I would have liked them to release Mastermap and Address Layer 2, but keeping within realms of likelihood good so far.
I posted about it at: http://blog.j12.org/2010/04/some-ordnance-survey-royal-mail-data-is-freed/ I used the OSM Word Press plug-in to display example of The Ordnance Survey 'Street View' tiles served up from OSM servers. I did it with this code in my post: [osm_map long="-1.51" lat="53.82" control="scaleline,scale" zoom="15" width="500" height="450" extmap_type="OSM" extmap_name="UK_OS_StreetView_Map" extmap_address="http://c.os.openstreetmap.org/sv/${z}/${x}/${y}.png"; extmap_init="numZoomLevels: 17, transitionEffect: 'resize', sphericalMercator: true" type="ext"] I have put 'Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2010' with link to license underneath map but I would like to replace 'Data by CC By-CC by OpenStreetMap' within map itself. The author of plugin says future version may have this ability. http://www.faktor.cc/Fotomobil/wp-osm-plugin-forum I intend also to look into directly embed Ordnance Survey Street View in Wordpress blog using the OS Open Space API http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/ which uses original tiles. I have similerly used the wordpress pluging to display the Surrey Aerial Photos: http://blog.j12.org/2010/05/surrey-aerial-photo/ I did it with this code in my post: [osm_map long="-0.59" lat="lat=51.24" control="scaleline,scale" zoom="15" width="500" height="450" extmap_type="OSM" extmap_name="Surrey_Aerial_Photo" extmap_address="http://gravitystorm.dev.openstreetmap.org/surrey/${z}/${x}/${y}.png"; extmap_init="numZoomLevels: 21, transitionEffect: 'resize', sphericalMercator: true" type="ext"] I got OS Street View as layer in JOSM with custom WMS layer but found can be a bit unreliable in a minority of sessions. I think it will be very useful but I myself still intend to usealong with visits using GPS traces & local knowledge. It can be useful prompt to fill in gaps. In area there a quite a few branches of short road that are so short almost private drives in feel when going on them. I did go up them with GPS but felt odd doing to. Somehow the GPS did not record and was never sure when I would get round to doing them again so I just have added them from Street View. I may add a few principal building outlines of building I know, as in many cases seem just as good as Aerial photos. & good to compare combinations. The coastal high tide mark seems quite accurate from where I followed path that was just above it, and is much better then what had at that stretch at the moment. Streams & outlines of woods seem pretty good from where I intesected them or followed them with GPS. And in cases I have looked better then the NPE traces have at moment, which I see not reason not to realign where obviously much better. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#OS_StreetView regards, Micah -- http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/%2520Bunny -- http://j12.org/sb/ ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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