Hi Tom, Not sure I agree that Streetview is 'horrible' - as a free base map it will rival or beat any of the others I have seen. This is even more true for rural areas.
I am aware most of the raster stuff got left out, but streetview *is* raster - it says as much in the PDF. What we would want to do, I think, is encourage people to rapidly trace this to form a base map, then set upon the task of checking it for accuracy. Secondly, adding to it all the great features that we know from OSM - with the time burden or walking all the streets gone, that second part should progress more rapidly. Phil On 1 April 2010 00:47, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > On 01/04/10 00:06, Phil Monger wrote: > > The streetview announcement is FANTASTIC news for OSM in the UK - as the >> database is pretty much exactly what is being built - roads / streets / >> names , etc. >> > > StreetView is horrible - the vector data will be far more useful. > > > We can surely get this as a "backdrop" layer, like the Yahoo imagery? >> > > I suspect that will be the best approach, yes. We'll probably want to wait > for the Vector Map District release in May though as that will be a better > data set than Meridian 2. Of course Boundary Line will also be useful for > tracing and that should be available tomorrow. > > All this assume the license is OK of course, which we won't know until we > see it. > > > A bulk import wouldn't be possible, as this is raster data. (Though the >> rest of the datasets seem to have a vector element, borders ect) >> > > It's not raster data. Almost all the raster data got left out. > > > Exciting times ... I'll finally have some backing for my small >> Lincolnshire village without needing to go out and GPS trace the entire >> place >> > > If it's only a small village then surveying it wouldn't take long anyway > ;-) Plus you'll get all sorts of detail that the OS mapping won't have. > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) > http://compton.nu/ >
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