Re: [Talk-GB] Open data

2016-03-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: 1. Would there be any cases where merging open data in OSM would reduce end user challenges (e.g height restrictions on bridges, traffic calming, cafes from the food hygiene data*)? End-user merging any of those is reasonably easy - these datasets are point data, which

[Talk-GB] Open data

2016-03-30 Thread Rob Nickerson
Richard wrote: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2016-March/018714.html Thanks Richard, You perfectly answered my question (despite the fact it took me a few attempts to get the question across) and alleviated many of my concerns. So next logical questions are: 1. Would there

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Re: Open data (Was: Parliamentary debate mentions OSM)

2016-03-30 Thread Jez Nicholson
Reminds me of the OSMGB project from Notts Uni (I'm sure that someone here was involved) which tried to make the OSM data more palatable. We should learn lessons from itbut I'm not sure what those lessons would be On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 at 08:15, Richard Fairhurst wrote: >

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Re: Open data (Was: Parliamentary debate mentions OSM)

2016-03-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Nickerson wrote: > Is it OK to leave it to the data users to merge the open data with OSM > or is that burden too large for them to bother (at which point the > pressure of OSM in the UK reduces)? > > The reason I ask is because I don't have the answers. Hoping some > of the data users on