As you've probably heard the Ordnance Survey is going to open some data next week. We don't exactly know what data or what license it will be under but there's a reasonable chance it won't be importable in to OSM because either the data will be low scale or released with an incompatible license.
If that's the case then I propose we start, separate from OSM, an OpenOS project. I basically see it as either a clearinghouse for putting up converted formats for the data and/or a full OSM stack, mapnik, potlatch and all for editing and fixing it. Because as Russ Nelson keeps saying, datasets without a community are dead. I propose that until we know it's compatible, usable and so on in OSM that no OSM resources are spent/used on something like this. Thus, I've bought the domain openos.co.uk to host it and set up a google group which you're welcome to join to help discuss what to do if/when we get some data. I think this data will need a community, tools and editing and who better to build all that than people from OSM? Thoughts? http://groups.google.com/group/open-os http://openos.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
