On 24/02/11 12:50, John Smith wrote: > On 24 February 2011 10:52, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 1) OSM's core purpose is as a street map > > This hasn't been the case for quite some time. > > Not to mention that the previous ABS data has been very useful in > regional areas for plotting physical features, like roads, that > couldn't be obtained any other way at the time. I can only assume the > new data would be the same, if not better, than the existing data > which would continue to improve map data available in regional areas.
For <expletive elided>'s sake, with due respect to Andrew Harvey and Steve Bennett, shouldn't the community be a whole lot better off expressing appropriate gratitude to Marcus Blake for offering this data and then pissing off and finding a use for it! No wonder no bloody government supplier wants to give us data. We are so damned ungrateful for what we get! I genuinely hope I have hurt a few feelings. At least I will have made the point. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
