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: > > > > >http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/docs/use-of-google-maps-for-display-and-promotion.pdf > > > >David > > This move is quite concerning, but underlines the need for OpenStreetMap > to exist in the first place.
Indeed, my reaction precisely. > I wonder if we should respond with some > sort of marketing campaign, aimed at local authorities and other public > institutions, to encourage them to use OpenStreetMap as the basis for > their future mapping needs. In fact we should maybe even offer to > complete surveys in a particular area of any types of data that are > incomplete but which are important for the public good. One that > particularly interests me at the moment is public rights of way. 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!) I tentatively arranged a lunch date with him and one of the GIS people at the County, but never followed it up. If I do that now, do you want to come along, Donald? David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
