I would encourage anyone with an interest (and from the submissions several on this list seem to have) to actually send a personal response to the OS consultation. (Dis)agreeing on this list is never going to change anything. Submitting your views (whatever they may be) as a response, as Richard suggests, just MAY have an affect if there is some commonality of view on one, or several, of the response points. Although the document itself is quite daunting - and yes you should read it all (Steve) - responding to any or all of the twelve specific questions should not take too much time, once you understand the issues. Richard has chosen to bravely share his response and should not be pilloried for having those particular views.
Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Manager of e-Learning Academic Development Centre for Educational Technology Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: [email protected] http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/elearning/chiltons.asp Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/ SoC conference 2009: http://www.soc.org.uk/southampton09/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst Sent: 19 January 2010 13:52 To: [email protected] Subject: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey response (again) I wouldn't for a moment expect everyone to agree on the 1:25k and 1:50k stuff. That's ok, you have the right to be wrong <grins, ducks and runs> But, more seriously, I would draw your attention away from that and to the point about the Ordnance Survey's aerial imagery: - OS has good aerial imagery - OSM, Google Earth etc. demonstrate that tracing from aerial imagery is "additive" rather than "subtractive" - i.e. people like us often trace things that the professional surveyors don't - OS doesn't need to fully release aerial imagery for it to be useful: they can simply "do a Yahoo" and enable others to trace from it via an API, as long as there are no restrictions on derived data To my mind this could, and should, potentially be the biggest gain for OSM from the whole exercise. If one bloke living in deepest darkest Charlbury says "you should do this" then DCLG is quite at liberty to say "yeah yeah yeah" and ignore the suggestion. But if lots of people ask, they will at least consider it. This is actually the sort of suggestion that works well in consultations - there's virtually no downside (OS and Getmapping still retain their business model), a lot of up, and good PR value. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
