[Talk-GB] Dorset County Council maps now offer OSM Mapnik as default base layer

[Nick Austin]

Good find.

Initial thoughts:
1) Judging by the status message that Firefox produces they are using
the OSM tile server. Is that allowed?
2) For some reason I can't get it to overlay Google Streetview over
Ordnance Survey maps.
2) If you flip the Google Streetview option on and off quickly you can
identify streets that OSM doesn't have yet.

Nick.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:55 PM, m902 <m902.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just noticed that Dorset County Council's public GIS service (Dorset
> Explorer) has been upgraded to version 3 which has Mapnik as a default base
> layer (it also offers Ordnance Survey as a base layer). See
> http://explorer.geowessex.com/.
>
> It does seem very slow, and has limited function compared to the previous
> version (it appears to be a complete replacement). Seems like a beta version
> really. But still potentially interesting, e.g. you can layer public rights
> of way onto Mapnik.
>
> Is anyone discussing this with Dorset's GIS team?
>
> Martin (m902)