[Talk-GB] Has someone just given us (the start of) access to the crown jewels?

[Simon Poole]

Most of the time such much applauded changes in policy work mainly for
the big guys (aka the goog, here and tomtom), by lowering the costs to
have similar level of non-automotive related detail as the national
mapping agencies and OSM. I don't quite see and haven't seen in other
countries, even in theory, how "small businesses" profit from this at all.

Simon


Am 13.06.2018 um 16:16 schrieb SK53:
> There's a transaction threshold, so not fully opendata: although I'm
> sure it could be gamed by a crowd!
>
> Before getting overly excited, take a look at the (poorly attributed)
> sample 1km sq in Exeter. Volume of data is very large with (just)
> buildings, road & pavement edges, property boundaries etc. Ask what
> will it improve in OSM other than precision: I suspect negligible
> impact on most routing applications (as OSM uses a centre-line model,
> which AFAIK is in the TIN layer of MM), mapping footpaths. On the
> (plus?) side lots of very detailed buildings (but not necessarily
> changes from extensions), property outlines (and perhaps this will
> change the status of the LR Inspire data).
>
> For me the single most valuable aspect will not be MM data at all, but
> the removal of licence doubts/issues about other datasets: notably
> those of Natural England, SNH and NRW, but also various PRoW data
> collected by Barry Cornelius.
>
> Jerry
>
> On 13 June 2018 at 14:56, Jon Stockill <lists at stockill.net
> <mailto:lists at stockill.net>> wrote:
>
>     It looks like bits of OS MasterMap are being released under OGL.
>
>     https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/716023/OSMM_narrative.pdf
>     <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/716023/OSMM_narrative.pdf>
>
>     This could be interesting!
>
>     -- 
>     Jon Stockill
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