[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Newbie - queries and usability suggestions]

[Lester Caine]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Lester Caine wrote:
> 
>> I seem to recall somewhere in the old grey cells that this was started
>> as providing a free map for the UK? In the same way that the US already
>> has one. So the fact that thee is anything outside that area seems like
>> a bonus to me.
> 
> If this were to be true, I have really misunderstood a lot. I owe 
> an apology to all the people I have tried to pull in here. I guess 
> none of the Wikipedia articles in Hungarian, Russian etc. mention 
> OSM as a U.K. project. They surely need to be updated then!

Seems that it was I who was mistaken, but in my defence I would add that 
a couple of UK only projects do seen now to have folded and are working 
with OSM instead.
The fact that there is not a freely available UK map is an annoyance 
that many people had been working on, and which Steve's sponsorship by 
multimap would seem to support. I can see why multimap would be 
interested as the change in style of maps as you zoom on multimap can be 
anoying, especially when trying to find a location having used the road 
level and a step in then changes all the road colours.
A single standard world wide and covering all levels of zooms will be 
very atractive.

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