[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

[Shaun McDonald]

On 1 Apr 2010, at 01:16, Phil Monger wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> Not sure I agree that Streetview is 'horrible' - as a free base map it will rival or beat any of the others I have seen. This is even more true for rural areas.
> 
> I am aware most of the raster stuff got left out, but streetview *is* raster - it says as much in the PDF.
> 
> What we would want to do, I think, is encourage people to rapidly trace this to form a base map, then set upon the task of checking it for accuracy. Secondly, adding to it all the great features that we know from OSM - with the time burden or walking all the streets gone, that second part should progress more rapidly.
> 

But I want to go out on my bike and map, I spend enough time at the computer as it is, without sitting there tracing, missing out on various details that are not or are wrong on the OS maps.

Shaun

> Phil
> 
> On 1 April 2010 00:47, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> On 01/04/10 00:06, Phil Monger wrote:
> 
> The streetview announcement is FANTASTIC news for OSM in the UK - as the
> database is pretty much exactly what is being built - roads / streets /
> names , etc.
> 
> StreetView is horrible - the vector data will be far more useful.
> 
> 
> We can surely get this as a "backdrop" layer, like the Yahoo imagery?
> 
> I suspect that will be the best approach, yes. We'll probably want to wait for the Vector Map District release in May though as that will be a better data set than Meridian 2. Of course Boundary Line will also be useful for tracing and that should be available tomorrow.
> 
> All this assume the license is OK of course, which we won't know until we see it.
> 
> 
> A bulk import wouldn't be possible, as this is raster data. (Though the
> rest of the datasets seem to have a vector element, borders ect)
> 
> It's not raster data. Almost all the raster data got left out.
> 
> 
> Exciting times ... I'll finally have some backing for my small
> Lincolnshire village without needing to go out and GPS trace the entire
> place
> 
> If it's only a small village then surveying it wouldn't take long anyway ;-) Plus you'll get all sorts of detail that the OS mapping won't have.
> 
> Tom
> 
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