On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 12:31 +0100, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: > Tim Dobson wrote: > > "Whereas Ordnance Survey maps were designed for the military, and > > churches were added simply as useful landmarks, > > No one here seems to have mentioned that the reason that on-line maps > aren't as good as OS maps is that OS won't give out the information > (at > least not at a reasonable price), so TeleAtlas, NavTeq, AND etc. have > to > spend millions of man hours collecting it all again, and they don't > have > the need to add all the bits and pieces. Hopefully once we (i.e. OSM) > collect the data, it won't need to be collected again.
The point was raised in the BBC TV report (watch the iPlayer video embedded in the BBC article). Jon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk