I mentioned a while back that grough was developing a composite map, blending OSM data with OS OpenData to fill in the gaps, and using public rights of way data directly from the local authorities which have released it. Over time, hopefully we will rely progressively less on other data sources.
I'm happy to say there's now a beta available, at http://geo.gy/ with more details about the project at http://map.grough.co.uk/. There'll also soon be a 3D version available, building on the prototype at http://3d.geo.gy/ to cover all of Great Britain and improve the controls. The source code behind generating the maps is open source, although not suitable for on-the-fly tile generation because of the preprocessing. The idea was to create a map which could be printed and used at a fixed scale (1:25,000 scale), with labels moved around to avoid obscuring detail etc. If anyone has comments or advice for us, it would be gratefully received. We're aware of some issues already, so this is only a beta release. Similarly if anyone would like to use the maps, we'd be more than happy to help if you run into problems. Luke
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