[Talk-GB] OS and OSM

[Andy Allan]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Steve Doerr
<steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.)

We've got OS StreetView and the ITO Locator layer in Potlatch2
already, and they are very useful. I'd expect some of the vector
products when the p2 vector background handling is more mature.

Are there any in particular you were thinking of?

Cheers,
Andy

PS There's lots of out-of-copyright layers in Potlatch2 too, but
that's not what we're discussing.