[Talk-GB] OS and OSM

[Ed Avis]

Chris Hill <osm at ...> writes:

>Much of North and North East  Lincolnshire is only in 
>OSM because it has been traced from OS OpenData.

Opinions differ about whether this makes OS OpenData a good thing or a bad thing.

Personally I am delighted that people have been able to quickly boost OSM's
coverage from 'nothing' to 'basic' in these areas, and provided a base for
further mapping.  But then, I am an incrementalist kind of mapper and I almost
always work by refining and adding detail to areas already partly complete.

Opinions also differ about whether having basic coverage in an area, rather than
a blank sheet, attracts OSM users and contributors or drives them away.  This too
usually depends on the way an individual contributor prefers to work.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>