My thanks to Mateusz and Dave for their comments, which I would like to
try to summarise as I see it:
* the purpose of OSM mapping in the UK of rural buildings is primarily
to provide a general location of properties i.e. accuracy and
precision are unnecessary.
* 'armchair' mapping therefore meets the needs, predominantly using
aerial photos or other tools/data
If so, I guess I was missing the point as I kind of thought that in the
future there might be the potential for collaboration with Ordnance
Survey e.g. filling in the gaps with high quality surveys, sharing
'other' data (based on local knowledge) that is not on OS maps etc.
I also thought that there might be scope for collaboration with
construction developers - after all they do detailed surveys of their
building sites which could be added to OSM. For some developers that
would mean they could have free plans (site/location etc.) for their
planning applications. The data in turn could be of value to the Local
Authorities e.g. creating UPRN and BLPU data - with a collaborative
approach OSM 'volunteers' could also be checking data quality.
Hmm.. the potential for real collaboration between OSM 'volunteers', OS
and other agencies strikes me as a possible win-win?.. but I suppose
that is me going 'a step too far'
On 23/07/2020 10:55, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB wrote:
Jul 23, 2020, 11:49 by [email protected]:
On 23/07/2020 10:12, Nick wrote:
Do we actually know what the general public use OSM for?
My impression is that the target for a lot of the material in OSM
is professional users of maps, rather than the general public.
I would say that most of use by general public is indirect - from
location
maps in a bus, through maps on mapy.cz/Osmand/FB/Snapchat/Uber/Maps.me
to indirectly benefiting from use of OSM data in various
plans/analysis/scientific research.
I would say that direct use by general public is going to be fairly
rare, though still
happening, like with nearly all resources.
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