<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">The idea of OSM, as I see it, is to create a free-as-in-speech map of the world. All data which goes into the map must be the same sort of 'free'. Whether that be surveying or "copying other people's maps" is irrelevant - the end goal is to create a complete map.<br><br>Encouraging people to start on OSM is difficult. Tracing the roads can be done today.<br><br>And as you say, many places on the OSM map have much better coverage than OS StreetView. I wasn't suggesting changing them because of OS StreetView. I'm just suggesting filling in the blank parts of the country as we have the data and resources to do so *now*. Or at least we should be discussing why we can and can't, which we are now - progress!!<br><br>Thanks<br>Tim<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 5/4/10, Chris Hill <i><osm@raggedred.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16,
16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Chris Hill <osm@raggedred.net><br>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey<br>To: Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br>Date: Monday, 5 April, 2010, 16:02<br><br><div class="plainMail">Tim François wrote:<br>> So the solution is to just leave it blank?<br>><br>Maybe the soution is to encourage people to treat OSM as an outdoor <br>sport, gathering GPS tracks and LOTS of extra data that no one else's <br>maps have, rather than an armchair hobby copying other people's maps.<br><br>Cheers, Chris<br><br>P.S. There are large chunks of GB 'up North of Northampton' that are <br>already better quality than OS Streetview<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-GB mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb"
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