[OSM-talk] Oxford University use without attribution
Stephen Gower
socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li
Wed Nov 28 14:17:36 GMT 2007
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:22:28PM +0100, Steve Chilton wrote:
> Grand to see OSM used in what is presumably quite a high profile site,
> and now attributed with links back.
Yes - once it got the attribution, this became a whole other story
and it's a shame really that some of the more high-profile maps are
Google - an odd inconsistancy, especially when OSM does useful
things like show street names in the University Science Area. In
fact, Google just has a big grey blob for the University Parks,
Science Area, Linacre College and the Social Sciences Area.
> Aside from the tile traffic issue, it does highlight the
> completeness/accuracy aspect of OSM data. [...] I suggest an
> editing and mapping blitz concentrating on the area inside the
> Oxford ring road. Anyone could contribute, but particularly local
> OSMers.
Time is a real issue for me, sadly, and there really are a lot of
holes, even in the street-level coverage (Headington and Botley are
noticably incomplete and the council estates of Wood Farm, Barton,
Blackbird Lees and Greater Lees each only have a couple of the
major routes). When it comes to extras such as buildings, pubs,
post boxes, etc we're really missing a lot.
> Similarly, Wolfson College is mapped in detail (by "socks" according to
> tagging) but some other colleges are not.
I am Socks, and I work at Wolfson, but I was basically tidying up
what someone else did anonymously, when they did the footpaths just
over the river. I agree, even a PoI node for each college would be
great - it's certainly on my to-do list, but getting access to mark
buildings or even campuses from some of the colleges might be
tricky!
s
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