I think this was meant for the list. :) 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. > > Robert (Jamie) Munro >
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