[OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

[Chris Hill]

kevin at cordina.org.uk wrote:
> OK, so transferring data isn't as academically pleasing as gaining a GPS trace and basing a map on that, but I don't see how a road in OSM from OS data is worse than no road being present.
>   
Gathering data for OSM on the ground is so much more than just the track 
of a road. When someone just traces the OS data with the names it 
superficially looks complete, but all of the additional data that a 
survey would bring is missing and that is where much of the value comes 
from. This 'complete' look puts off other OSMers so the net result is 
long-lasting, crap quality data with all of the OS errors and omissions 
and no added detail. Speed of completion comes a poor second to real 
quality in my mind.

There are a few useful imports such as boundary data which are not 
available from a survey.  Using OS Locator to compare with OSM to help 
establish what is missing is useful too, but I believe that should lead 
to a survey to add anything to OSM.

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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly