Some types of building, including school buildings, are available in the OS opendata products.
Cheers Andy From: Jason Cunningham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 December 2011 01:23 To: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Retour de l'autoroute britannique Does anyone know the source of Google's map data for the UK? Using the following comparison site [http://sautter.com/map/] I can see much of the woodland is an exact match for woodland is OSM whose source is OS vectormap district. So one of the sources is Ordnance Survey. There are several buildings, eg schools, with accurate outlines, where would this data have come from? Cheers Jason On 8 December 2011 13:13, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: Google have finally done it: they've switched from TeleAtlas to Google map data in the UK. Set your stopwatches for the first newspaper story about "man drives off cliff - '...but Google told me it was a road'!". Some of their choices are, shall we say, a little heroic. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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