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

[Nick Black]

Is there someone from Oxford University who can shed some light on the
real reason for the decision to/not to use OSM?  I've tried to get in
touch via the website, but got directed to an external company who
haven't replied.


On Dec 12, 2007 11:49 AM, Artem Pavlenko <artem.mapnik at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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