On 12 Dec 2007, at 10:48, Matthew Westcott wrote: > On 11 Dec 2007, at 18:14, Artem Pavlenko wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> It looks like Oxford university dropped OSM in favor of Google Maps. >> I wonder why? >> Has anyone got any insights? > > Hi, > I've not been involved in the OU website myself, but I know a few > people who are...
Hi Matthew, > > Apparently it was mostly down to organisational reasons - we > reluctantly changed it on their behalf, as two members of OUCS staff > had invested time in the OXPOINTS project and wanted to put it to > use: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxpoints/ Understand. Still, OSM has more up-to-date mapping of Oxford and university (buildings,walks). Could having an optional OSM layer on Google Maps interface be a solution? It's trivial to implement and I'm happy to help;) For an example see: http://media.mapnik.org/oxford-osm.html. > As a secondary reason, there were reports that OSM "felt slower" than > Google - whatever that might mean. I'm not sure either. Could be OpenLayers vs GMap JavaScript. > > - Matthew > (developer at Torchbox and part-time Charlbury Code Ninja) Artem (who thinks OUCS should use OSM) > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
