Re: [Talk-GB] Separation of sources

2010-04-10 Thread Ed Avis
Simon Ward si...@... writes: I’d just like to see something where ground surveyed data is the ultimate, and it’s not clear to me that it is the ultimate now. I've done a fair bit of ground surveying, but all of it has been from the starting point of an existing map - usually one traced from the

Re: [Talk-GB] Separation of sources

2010-04-09 Thread Ed Avis
Simon Ward si...@... writes: With all of the current excitement over OS OpenData, I have been thinking about how tracing, imports, etc, affect what data is actually surveyed. In my mind, I’m preferring having a project where data is obtained purely from ground survey, other projects dealing with

Re: [Talk-GB] Separation of sources

2010-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
Ed Avis wrote: In my mind, I’m preferring having a project where data is obtained purely from ground survey, other projects dealing with other sources of data, and maybe another project to combine them. I think OS still have their aircraft for aerial photography. But I think a lot of the

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-GB] Separation of sources

2010-04-06 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Martin - CycleStreets wrote: I agree in an ideal world, ground-surveys done from first principles will be preferable. But the fact is that there remain areas of the country that routing. Wolverhampton and Newcastle for instance are places which we certainly would love to see become usable for

Re: [Talk-GB] Separation of sources

2010-04-06 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:35:42AM +0100, Martin - CycleStreets wrote: I'm not sure I quite understand the objection to tracing over other data that OSM can legally and ethically use (though can appreciate David Earl's point of view). There is no objection to tracing over other data, but an

Re: [Talk-GB] Separation of sources

2010-04-06 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Martin - CycleStreets wrote: I agree in an ideal world, ground-surveys done from first principles will be preferable. But the fact is that there remain areas of the country that routing. Wolverhampton and Newcastle for instance are places which we certainly would love to see become usable for

[Talk-GB] Separation of sources

2010-04-05 Thread Simon Ward
With all of the current excitement over OS OpenData, I have been thinking about how tracing, imports, etc, affect what data is actually surveyed. In my mind, I’m preferring having a project where data is obtained purely from ground survey, other projects dealing with other sources of data, and