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

2008-08-29 Thread Steve Hill
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, James Stewart wrote: > I guess one way to break up UK mapping data monoploy is for other > owners of important GI to release it, such as local authorities, I was under the impression that the local authorities generally used an OS base map, so their own data may well be deri

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] 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 enthusias

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] 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 a

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

2008-08-29 Thread Stephen Coast
On 29 Aug 2008, at 13:30, James Stewart wrote: > I guess one way to break up UK mapping data monoploy is for other > owners of important GI to release it, such as local authorities, > > http://www.gisdevelopment.net/magazine/global/2008/august/52.htm Or... maybe we could start some kind of proje

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

2008-08-29 Thread James Stewart
I guess one way to break up UK mapping data monoploy is for other owners of important GI to release it, such as local authorities, http://www.gisdevelopment.net/magazine/global/2008/august/52.htm James Stewart On 29 Aug 2008, at 12:31, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSA

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

2008-08-29 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 maps is that OS won't g

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] 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]: > > http://www.dail