Re: [Talk-GB] "the brilliant and constantly improving Wikipedia of maps"

2013-04-29 Thread Dudley Ibbett
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@opens

Re: [Talk-GB] "the brilliant and constantly improving Wikipedia of maps"

2013-04-29 Thread Rovastar
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

Re: [Talk-GB] "the brilliant and constantly improving Wikipedia of maps"

2013-04-30 Thread Kevin Peat
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.

Re: [Talk-GB] "the brilliant and constantly improving Wikipedia of maps"

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Chance
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