Reminds me of the OSMGB project from Notts Uni (I'm sure that someone here
was involved) which tried to make the OSM data more palatable. We should
learn lessons from itbut I'm not sure what those lessons would be
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 at 08:15, Richard Fairhurst
wrote:
> Rob Nickerson wrote:
>
Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Is it OK to leave it to the data users to merge the open data with OSM
> or is that burden too large for them to bother (at which point the
> pressure of OSM in the UK reduces)?
>
> The reason I ask is because I don't have the answers. Hoping some
> of the data users on t
Yeah I think that is a good benefit and will be an element end users
consider. Mixing data by country is however easy to do from an OSM licence
point of view. For example telenav use (or at least did use) OSM in the USA
but something else in other countries quite easily for many months.
Thus, alth
Isn't one of the main benefits to have the data for the whole world in
1 format ? Compare that to having to download open data files from
government sites from all over the world from sites in different
languages in different formats and having to combine those ...
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:46
Oh come on I'm not here to bash the history of OSM. I think what we have
done is incredible and I genuinely believe that the presence of OSM has
pushed both the government (the OS) and Google to where we are now - strong
competition and more open data.
We have open data now - great. The question i
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