I would love OS maps to be a view in Google Maps. OS maps are far superior to Google's.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Ian Stirling <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian Butterworth wrote: >> >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/17/ordnance-survey-maps-online >> >> "The online maps would be free to all, including commercial users who, >> previously, had to acquire expensive and restrictive licences at £5,000 per >> usage, a fee many entrepreneurs felt was too high." >> >> About time too. >> >> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/17/ordnance-survey-maps-online> > > Questions remain. > > For example - freely available data that can be used commercially can > mean a lot of things - some of which are a lot more useful than others. > > Is this freely distributable vector data, with a license like cc-by-sa? > > Or is it a virtual map, like google, where you only get to see tiles, > and cannot legally derive data from them, or copy them for use in other > situations. > > The first allows more or less any use. > > The second might not allow for example: > Taking the data, and rendering a cycling map deemphasiseing motorways, > and emphasising cyclepaths. > > Crowdsourcing traffic data, and using it in a free routing application. > > Adding housenumbers to a copy of the map. > ... > > The OS already claims that you cannot draw a line on an OS map, without > that line being derived from the OS map, and requiring a license to show > that line to others. > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
