[Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta

[Bob Kerr]

Excellent,
I have already discovered some discrepancies in Edinburgh using the layers layer. I am also not noticing any lag in displaying the data at this time.  I can also see the benefit of highlighting the schools and hope that in the future that maybe hospitals,doctors will be included
Well done
Cheers
Bob

--- On Fri, 18/3/11, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:

From: Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com>
Subject: [Talk-GB] new ITO Map service in beta
To: "Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org" <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
Date: Friday, 18 March, 2011, 14:12

ITO are pleased to announce a set of new 'overlay maps' for OpenStreetMap which can highlights some of the data layers, such as speed limits, highway lane widths, whether rivers are navigable and if buildings have addresses etc.


The service is still very much in beta and may suffer if many people jump on it at the same time but lets see what happens.

The service is available here:
http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main


And a wiki description is available here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ITO_Map

We are starting with a service for a bounding box that included the UK and northern France, Holland, a bit of Germany and up to southern Norway and a separate bounding box including the bay area, SF. The tiles will always be based current daily diff planet data (with a 24 hour processing lag). We should never serve old tiles from old data. If the service is noticeably slow then please give it a break for a hour and then try again.


We will roll out the service to more areas as the system beds in and then globally over the next few weeks assuming that the servers hold up.

We will gather feedback over the next week or so and then many some changes to the service to iron out any wrinkles.




Regards,


Peter Miller
ITO World Ltd



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