[OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] oxford uni is not using OSM anymore

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 12 Dec 2007, at 10:48, Matthew Westcott wrote:

> On 11 Dec 2007, at 18:14, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> It looks like Oxford university dropped OSM in favor of Google Maps.
>> I wonder why?
>> Has anyone got any insights?
>
> Hi,
> I've not been involved in the OU website myself, but I know a few
> people who are...

Hi Matthew,
>
> Apparently it was mostly down to organisational reasons - we
> reluctantly changed it on their behalf, as two members of OUCS staff
> had invested time in the OXPOINTS project and wanted to put it to
> use: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxpoints/

Understand. Still, OSM has more up-to-date mapping of Oxford and  
university (buildings,walks).
Could having an optional OSM layer on Google Maps interface be a  
solution?  It's trivial to implement and I'm happy to help;)
For an example see: http://media.mapnik.org/oxford-osm.html.

> As a secondary reason, there were reports that OSM "felt slower" than
> Google - whatever that might mean.

I'm not sure either. Could be OpenLayers vs GMap JavaScript.

>
> - Matthew
> (developer at Torchbox and part-time Charlbury Code Ninja)

Artem
(who thinks OUCS should use OSM)

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