[Talk-GB] New OS open data now available

[Rob Nickerson]

My understanding was that the river dataset is now fully connected (and
wasn't before). Is this not the case?

Are there any attributes on the building vector data?

Rob
On 24 Mar 2015 18:28, "tony wroblewski" <tony.wroblewski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Just had a quick look at the OpenData, in summary:
>
> -> Buildings are slightly more detailed, basically vector versions of
> the one on the streetview raster map
> -> All of the rest, forests, rivers, are no different than the current
> Vector data we already have (AFAIK). Forests,rivers etc are the same
> size as the older data.
> -> Roads seem to include a few more details, but not enough detail on
> them for accurate usage in OSM.
>
> So basically, it gives us slightly improved buildings, but they are
> still highly simplified in terms of their pay for products.
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 24 March 2015 at 18:58, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > So the new OS OpenData that was discussed a few weeks ago is now
> available:
> >
> >
> https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2015/03/new-os-opendata-products-now-live/
> >
> > I think there could be many good uses of this including to help validate
> > some of our data.
> >
> > If anyone is using this then let us know so that we don't duplicate work.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
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