Is there someone from Oxford University who can shed some light on the real reason for the decision to/not to use OSM? I've tried to get in touch via the website, but got directed to an external company who haven't replied.
On Dec 12, 2007 11:49 AM, Artem Pavlenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Nick Black -------------------------------- http://www.blacksworld.net _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
