On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 11:24, Tony OSM <tonyo...@gmail.com> wrote: > There was a reference to £1000 worth of data being made free each month > to individual users - can't find out how this works yet. This may allow > us as individuals to populate OSM and OSM essentially aggregates the > data - rather like postcode data. I am researching the site to find out > how this works.
I'm fairly sure that's "free as in beer" and not "free as in speech", and the data will still be subject to a restrictive license which is incompatible with OSM. > OS have also made maps downloadable as images 'OS OpenMap Local' - I did > OS square SD, this provides a map picture, I checked out a new housing > estate and it has the street names - not currently in OSM (haven't put > them in yet). So the OS data is useful. For that SD square they provide > hundreds of files based on their method of 10km map references with 4 > sections per 10 km - NW,NE,SW,SE. Not easy to use, an overlay of > sections is required. This is updated regularly so can replace OS Open > Data Streetview which I believe to be no longer updated. OpenMap Local is already available on https://os.openstreetmap.org/ and presumably it will percolate down into editors in due course. -- Russ Garrett r...@garrett.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
