[Talk-GB] OSM on the Today Programme

[David Ellams]

OSM got a quick, but pretty good plug on the Today Programme this
morning.

[1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mby52/Today_03_09_2012/

at 2:45:56

For those who don't want to listen, an author of a new book called A
History Of the Word in Twelve Maps came on to argue that the paper map
is history and online maps are the future. He argued that this was
sinister (a) because Google dominated to such a large extent, and (b)
because the whole focus was commercial (location-based advertising,
etc.), and therefore lacked diversity. Charles Arthur from the Guardian
argued against this and mentioned OpenStreetMap as a good
counter-example.  He described it as a "sort of Wikipedia of maps that
anyone can edit" and mentioned that it often gets updated more quickly
than commercial maps. Shame he didn't have time to expand and get in
some examples of how OSM makes greater diversity possible than was ever
the case previously (OpenCycleMap, OpenPisteMap, etc.).

David

References

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mby52/Today_03_09_2012/
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