[Talk-GB] OS and OSM

[Steve Doerr]

On 11/03/2011 13:39, Dave F. wrote:

> IMO the *vast* majority of problems that came from bulk importing 
> arose due to the incompetence of the importers, *not* the value of the 
> data.
>
> If the imports are done in reasonably sizes chunks & then *checked* 
> afterwards they bring value to the OSM database.

A halfway house between bulk imports and ignoring OS OpenData entirely 
would be providing background images in the editors. I don't see why 
this shouldn't be done for pretty much all the OS data sets. (I admit, 
though, that I have no idea of the technical complexity that would be 
involved.)

-- 
Steve