Re: [Talk-GB] State of play of OS Vector data

2010-05-02 Thread Chris Hill
The Meridian data is pretty crude and incomplete. The residential level roads seem to be largely missing, especially in rural areas. The curves are chunky and crude. Similarly the woods and water are not fully represented and are chunky. The admin borders have chunks missing. I just ignored it

Re: [Talk-GB] State of play of OS Vector data

2010-05-02 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Chris, That is a really good summary of what the dataset contains thank you - the woodland areas will certainly be useful for countryside maps. Do you know how this data compares to the Meridian data that OS released last month? I know many people were unimpressed with it, but I think that it

Re: [Talk-GB] State of play of OS Vector data

2010-05-02 Thread Chris Hill
Seventy 7 wrote: > Can someone tell us what's happening with the latest release of OS data > please? When streetview came out there were quite a few emails about tiles > being rendered for tracing etc but this time it's all been very quiet! > > I presume someone somewhere is doing the vector data

Re: [Talk-GB] State of play of OS Vector data

2010-05-02 Thread Robert Scott
On Sunday 02 May 2010, Seventy 7 wrote: > Can someone tell us what's happening with the latest release of OS data > please? People are looking at it, people are stroking their beards. There was a bit of discussion about this at the hack day yesterday. Probably the best thing to do is convert bi

[Talk-GB] State of play of OS Vector data

2010-05-02 Thread Seventy 7
Can someone tell us what's happening with the latest release of OS data please? When streetview came out there were quite a few emails about tiles being rendered for tracing etc but this time it's all been very quiet! I presume someone somewhere is doing the vector data, but what about the other