Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent 11/05/2009 17:46 To Someoneelse <[email protected]> cc [email protected] Subject Re: [OSM-talk] free-map coverage (was Nokia Mobile Phone - GPS)
>>Sounds useful - but free-map coverage seems to be a bit limited (i.e. >>just contours shown most places that I've zoomed in. Is there any >>information on what the coverage actually is? >It covers the majority of England and Wales, but the areas near London, Manchester and Birmingham are >excluded, so as not to overload the server; also some eastern and far western areas are excluded (though >these could easily be added in). The best coverage is central southern England and Oxfordshire/Cotswolds, >plus the M6 corridor north of Birmingham to the Scottish border (but excluding Birmingham/Manchester) and >north Wales. Much of the Peak District (away from Manchester) is included as well as much of the Yorkshire >Dales. I was trying to pick a combination of popular outdoor areas and well-mapped areas. Actually slight amendment to that - it doesn't go as far west as I thought. In southern England it goes just west of Bath. So the central part of England and Wales, with a western emphasis to the north, sums it up. *However* it will be trivial to add Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, SW Wales and East Anglia without overloading the server. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
