[OSM-talk] Request from big online mapping company

[David Earl]

I've had the mail below from one of the big online mapping companies (as the
mailing list has a public archive, I;ve excised personal details, but I'm
sure you'll all know which company I mean).

So three things:

* seems like a good opportunity tome, but are there any problems or concerns
in co-operating (obvously I'll point him at the license, but I guess he
already knows that)?

* am I right in thinking osm2shp at
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/utils/osm2shp does this. That's
obviously not complete: what else do I need to pick up to compile and link
it, and how (I'm going to need some quite detailed instructions)? Or does
someone already have a compiled executable I could use (I can run it on a
Linux x86 box, or Windows)? What programs I might be able to get access to
understand ESRI shapefile so I can look at what it produces?

* which other areas might be of interest? Rutland, Chester and Isle of Wight
spring to mind. They have to be complete to the street name level I think.

Thanks,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: John *****
Sent: 09 February 2007 10:17
To: David Earl
Subject: cambridge maps

Hi David -

I am really impressed with your Mapping effort.  As you have mapped it all
yourself your tagging should be quite consistant, which will make it easier
to render nice looking maps.  Are you able to provide the area you mapped in
ESRI shape file format?  Then I could look at rendering some tiles for
incoporation into the M******p API. If all goes well we maybe able to
release them to our public site (http://www.m******p.com).

cheers, john
John *****
GIS Development Manager