[OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?
From the news: OKFN wrote Ordnance Survey announced that their OS OpenData Licence is to be replaced by the Open Government Licence v3.0. https://twitter.com/OKFN/status/569094359204929536 Commented by a blog post of the Open Data Institute: http://theodi.org/blog/ordnance-survey-govco-open-data Finally: Ordnance Survey is announcing it will launch a world-leading digital map as open data (www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk); OS OpenMap – a new ‘street level’ vector dataset designed to be the most detailed open data mapping product available, providing a backdrop for integrating and visualising analytical data. 1. Is this OS OpenMap worldwide or UK bound? 2. How does this world-leading digital map look like (map style)? 3. And what does this mean to OSM? Yours, S. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?
Interesting question Canada has a very similar license. Cheerio John On 22 February 2015 at 07:11, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: From the news: OKFN wrote Ordnance Survey announced that their OS OpenData Licence is to be replaced by the Open Government Licence v3.0. https://twitter.com/OKFN/status/569094359204929536 Commented by a blog post of the Open Data Institute: http://theodi.org/blog/ordnance-survey-govco-open-data Finally: Ordnance Survey is announcing it will launch a world-leading digital map as open data (www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk); OS OpenMap – a new ‘street level’ vector dataset designed to be the most detailed open data mapping product available, providing a backdrop for integrating and visualising analytical data. 1. Is this OS OpenMap worldwide or UK bound? 2. How does this world-leading digital map look like (map style)? 3. And what does this mean to OSM? Yours, S. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?
Hi Jonathan Thanks for the clarification. My fist intention is to take this announcement to put pressure on other national mapping agencies to release their map data under an open license. But thinking about real openess and cooperation (egov and OSM) consider this: Often mapping agencies encourage users to report map errors very much like OSM does in order to enhance their data (e.g. this http://bit.ly/1p5xVH4). So, I'd like to suggest to national mapping agencies to not only release their data but also updates coming from such crowdsourced user input. Cheers, S. 2015-02-22 14:07 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Bennett jonobenn...@gmail.com: On 22/02/2015 12:11, Stefan Keller wrote: 1. Is this OS OpenMap worldwide or UK bound? Neither. It's GB only -- none of the island of Ireland is included. 2. How does this world-leading digital map look like (map style)? It doesn't -- it's data only, so needs to be rendered to make a map, using whatever style you choose. 3. And what does this mean to OSM? Probably not much. The quality of the data in previous OS Open products has been variable, to say the least. The GB community will probably discuss how best to deal with it on the talk-gb mailing list. Pop over if you want to join in. J. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?
On 22/02/2015 12:11, Stefan Keller wrote: 1. Is this OS OpenMap worldwide or UK bound? Neither. It's GB only -- none of the island of Ireland is included. 2. How does this world-leading digital map look like (map style)? It doesn't -- it's data only, so needs to be rendered to make a map, using whatever style you choose. 3. And what does this mean to OSM? Probably not much. The quality of the data in previous OS Open products has been variable, to say the least. The GB community will probably discuss how best to deal with it on the talk-gb mailing list. Pop over if you want to join in. J. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?
The feedback should go both ways, if OSM members detect errors and know where they came from they should report back. Tom Taylor On 22/02/2015 9:27 AM, Stefan Keller wrote: Hi Jonathan Thanks for the clarification. My fist intention is to take this announcement to put pressure on other national mapping agencies to release their map data under an open license. But thinking about real openess and cooperation (egov and OSM) consider this: Often mapping agencies encourage users to report map errors very much like OSM does in order to enhance their data (e.g. this http://bit.ly/1p5xVH4). So, I'd like to suggest to national mapping agencies to not only release their data but also updates coming from such crowdsourced user input. Cheers, S. ... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
