From today's Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/ordnance-survey-google-maps
(not reference to OpenStreetMap towards the end).
and the letter from OS which provoked it:
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/docs/use-of-google-maps-for-display-and-promotion.pdf
David
From today's Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/ordnance-survey-google-maps
(not reference to OpenStreetMap towards the end).
and the letter from OS which provoked it:
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/docs/use-of-google-maps-for-display-and-promotion.pdf
David
This
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:14 PM, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
and the letter from OS which provoked it:
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/docs/use-of-google-maps-for-display-and-promotion.pdf
To me it seems that OS is broadening it's business into the seriously
overstating rights trade...
On 20/11/2008 12:58, Donald Allwright wrote:
From today's Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/ordnance-survey-google-maps
(not reference to OpenStreetMap towards the end).
and the letter from OS which provoked it:
I had some contact with the RoW officer at Cambridgeshire County Council
recently (he was pointing out that we had a footway down as a cycleway, though
it still is because I didn't think I could use his info based as it was on an
OS base map!)
Now that's an angle I'd not thought of before! So
Hi,
Gustav Foseid wrote:
To me it seems that OS is broadening it's business into the seriously
overstating rights trade...
It seems to me that in this situation, the bad guys are not the OS but
Google. Google has recently modified their terms of use, making clear
that they automatically
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Donald Allwright
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, the current tagging doesn't seem to have enough granularity here.
The highway=path, highway=footway, foot=yes, horse=designated etc. tags
doesn't seem to include a way of actually saying if a path is a public
Actually, the current tagging doesn't seem to have enough granularity
here. The highway=path, highway=footway, foot=yes, horse=designated etc.
tags doesn't seem to include a way of actually saying if a path is a
public right of way or a permissive path.
It does. The yes value for a tag means
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access
foot = yes = legal right of way
foot = permissive = permissive path
Unfortunately, Potlatch has been adding lots of * = yes for a while by
default, so it's hard to tell whether the contributor understands the
implications of the =yes tags and
Nick Whitelegg
Sent: 20 November 2008 3:27 PM
To: Donald Allwright
Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold
over derived geographic data in the UK
Actually, the current tagging doesn't seem to have enough granularity
here. The highway
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