Re: [Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

2018-06-16 Thread Andrew Hain
The property extents might be something that can be turned into landuse polygons. The existing ones where I live are very low quslity. -- Andrew From: Tim Waters Sent: 14 June 2018 14:09:57 To: OSM - Talk GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the

Re: [Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

2018-06-14 Thread Philip Barnes
On 14 June 2018 14:09:57 BST, Tim Waters wrote: >I think master map buildings could be really good for use for imagery >offsets and to effectively ground truth surrounding traced features. I am certainly using OS 24 inch maps in that way to work out where one building ends and another begins.

Re: [Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

2018-06-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike Thacker wrote: > Yes, a threshold on getting the data via an API, but true Open > Government Licence doesn't limit the amount of data used (as > far as I know) so it should be possible to build up a fill picture > as open data. The transaction-limited versions don't appear to be being

Re: [Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

2018-06-13 Thread Mark Goodge
On 13/06/2018 17:08, Simon Poole wrote: Most of the time such much applauded changes in policy work mainly for the big guys (aka the goog, here and tomtom), by lowering the costs to have similar level of non-automotive related detail as the national mapping agencies and OSM. I don't quite

Re: [Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

2018-06-13 Thread Simon Poole
Most of the time such much applauded changes in policy work mainly for the big guys (aka the goog, here and tomtom), by lowering the costs to have similar level of non-automotive related detail as the national mapping agencies and OSM. I don't quite see and haven't seen in other countries, even in

Re: [Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

2018-06-13 Thread SK53
There's a transaction threshold, so not fully opendata: although I'm sure it could be gamed by a crowd! Before getting overly excited, take a look at the (poorly attributed) sample 1km sq in Exeter. Volume of data is very large with (just) buildings, road & pavement edges, property boundaries