Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey talk tomorrow

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Monger
Can't quite make that one .. but it sounds great. Any chance of a YouTube'd version appearing? Phil On 11 May 2010 09:51, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Hello everyone, In case of interest here: There is a British Computer Society talk given by a couple of guys from the

Re: [Talk-GB] Driving Test routes

2010-04-13 Thread Phil Monger
I would go the route of contacting them, and saying : Hey, have you heard of OSM? Why don't you stick up proper streetmapping on your website showing the routes, for free? If you donate your route data it will get added to the map and ... ect. I've learned that a reciprocal relationship like

Re: [Talk-GB] OS StreetView accuracy: caution!

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Monger
I'd echo that sentiment, and say this: Streetview is a product designed to show *streets. *Anything else is just detail to show these in context. It would be a huge mistake for anyone to trace topo details from StreetView into OSM, for these reasons and more! I do think though, that it is an

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-03-31 Thread Phil Monger
The streetview announcement is FANTASTIC news for OSM in the UK - as the database is pretty much exactly what is being built - roads / streets / names , etc. We can surely get this as a backdrop layer, like the Yahoo imagery? A bulk import wouldn't be possible, as this is raster data. (Though

Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

2010-03-31 Thread Phil Monger
. Phil On 1 April 2010 00:47, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 01/04/10 00:06, Phil Monger wrote: The streetview announcement is FANTASTIC news for OSM in the UK - as the database is pretty much exactly what is being built - roads / streets / names , etc. StreetView is horrible