On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Peter Miller wrote: > I have been working on adding wiki pages for every County and Unitary > Authority in the UK (there are 140 in total) so that we have a > consistent place to add this sort of information. There were articles > for some and there are about 19 added so far. Could people add county > pages for their areas and and use this for a hit-list section of > wanted places?: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:County_in_England
Just a thought, but UK != England - might it be an idea to rename this page, or is the plan to create separate pages for Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland...? > Do remember that the local councils might be interested themselves. > There is growing official awareness that OSM exists and might be > useful to them. That is one reason why I am building the local > authority pages. I'm not sure why the councils would use OSM - as far as I know the councils' internal systems (e.g. highways department, etc) are heavilly based on OS maps with the council's own layers overlaid. This means (as I interpret it): 1. The council's own layers are derived from OS maps so could never be integrated with OSM 2. Since the councils have to publish their maps they presumably already have a licence from OS to do so, so using OSM *as well* won't save them money. 3. Like it or not, OS maps are usually more detailed than OSM - most (all?) areas in OSM don't map detail like where the running lanes of a road end and the walkway begins and few areas have individual buildings mapped. For example, zoom into some of the residential streets on: http://maps.swansea.gov.uk/localview/OnTheMap.aspx I'd be pretty interested to hear another side to the argument though. :) - Steve xmpp:[email protected] sip:[email protected] http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
