Hi guys, I'm a relative newbie to OSM(I understand it - I just haven't been involved long), but I just noticed this on the news sites: http://news.google.co.uk/?ncl=1240671745
I'm seeing articles like this: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4629602.ece saying things like: "Corporate cartographers are demolishing thousands of years of history, not to mention Britain's geography, at a stroke, by not including them on maps," she said. "We're in danger of losing what makes maps unique; giving us a feel for a place." It seems someone has made a speech condemning online map providors with being obsessed with directions etc. There are headlines like "Is cartography a dying art?" and technologists from google saying: "Whereas Ordnance Survey maps were designed for the military, and churches were added simply as useful landmarks, digital maps could now be customised to reveal the location of fish-and-chip shops in any given district, he said. “If you want to know exactly where Doctor Who episodes were produced around the UK, that can be put on to a map,” Perhaps the people who are nearish the top of OSM, and I feel sheepish that I don't really know who I'm talking about, might like to put out a pressrelease or press statement about how OSM is helping "put *real* maps back on the internet" and allow cool mashups etc. I'm not sure of the vein exactly, all I can see if a press opportunity that should not be missed. Cheers Tim -- www.tdobson.net ---- If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk