[Talk-GB] OS and OSM

[Graham Jones]

Steve,
I didn't render a whole map using Meridian2, but made a couple of examples
to satisfy my curiosity here:
http://nerdytoad.blogspot.com/2010/09/mapnik-and-osopendata.html.

They give a bit of a feel for what the data looks like.

Graham


On 11 March 2011 16:34, Steve Doerr <steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On 11/03/2011 14:55, Andy Allan wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Steve Doerr
>> <steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>  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?
>>
>
> Well, part of my point was that we non-technical mappers need to see the
> data sets overlaying OSM data first to know if they're useful. That's why
> I'd love there to be a quick way to get them all there first. But if I had
> to choose I'd probably start with Boundary Line. I sort of have a feeling
> Code-Point Open would be useful, but I can't immediately say why. It's clear
> that people with the technical skills are making good use of the VectorMap
> District. I'm also curious to see Meridian 2, although it's apparently very
> simplified geometry. Maybe there's even value in seeing the gazetteer names
> overlaid on OSM data, though with only 1 km resolution it's perhaps not
> going to add much.
>
> --
> Steve
>
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Graham Jones
Hartlepool, UK.
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