Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: ANNOUNCING GB1900 -- Online volunteers needed to build the most comprehensive gazetteer of British place names

All in all very good news. Perhaps they ought to extend it to Ireland too! Jerry On 23 September 2016 at 21:18, Paul Williams wrote: > Also it says in the email "the GB1900 system is programmed to dump out its > current place name database every 24 hours, and once it

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: ANNOUNCING GB1900 -- Online volunteers needed to build the most comprehensive gazetteer of British place names

Also it says in the email "the GB1900 system is programmed to dump out its current place name database every 24 hours, and once it starts to build up we can make this dump available for download without funding. It will be under the simplest form of the Creative Commons license, which means

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: ANNOUNCING GB1900 -- Online volunteers needed to build the most comprehensive gazetteer of British place names

On 2016-09-23 19:15, SK53 wrote: Hi Paul, I'd be very interested in this providing it has a decent licence. AFAIK Vision of Britain has a restrictive licence which means that I have spent some time recreating small parts of their data on OHM (e.g., London Boroughs of the LCC). There's still a

[Talk-GB] Fwd: ANNOUNCING GB1900 -- Online volunteers needed to build the most comprehensive gazetteer of British place names

I spotted the message below on a mailing list I'm on, and thought it might be also of interest to OpenStreetMappers. I've noticed that their site uses OSM as a background map (use the slider at the top right of the map to fade in/out between the old map and OSM). Cheers, Paul Williams (Paul The

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Live streams for SotM are up online. Follow along, tweet and ask questions: http://2016.stateofthemap.org/ On the program page, click a link to a talk where you can ask questions and discuss the talk. We will try to keep an eye on these and ask your questions here at SotM! -- *Rob*