[Openstreetmap] The bigger picture

[Nick Whitelegg]

>I work as a web designer, and it is surprising how many web sites either
>require, or could be improved by, a map.  At present in the UK we are
>limited to offerings from the Ordnance Survey, Multimap, or Streetmap, all
>of which either require you to link to a page full of extraneous data and
>links, or require a substantial fee. What would really be nice would be a
>simple image of the relevant area that could be downloaded, maybe with a
>choice of background colour, that I could then annotate as I required with
>no licensing restrictions. I'd willing pay at least £10 for that.
Multiply
>that £10 by the number of people in a similar position to me and you start
>to pay for your IT infrastructure.

Just speaking for myself, and no-one else:

One of my goals with the countryside mapping site Freemap
(free-map.org.uk), which now uses OSM data, was to allow web sites to
display mapping information for free. My current aims for Freemap include
features such as annotation, as you say, making use of technology such as
AJAX and Canvas or SVG in Firefox 1.5.

However for free is the crucial condition. If the use of Freemap maps was
charged-for, it would be no different from any of the commercial mapping
sites.

Nick













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