[OSM-talk] Corporate Cartographers accused of demolishing history. (make press release?)

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Fri Aug 29 12:31:23 BST 2008


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Tim Dobson wrote:
> "Whereas Ordnance Survey maps were designed for the military, and 
> churches were added simply as useful landmarks,

No one here seems to have mentioned that the reason that on-line maps
aren't as good as OS maps is that OS won't give out the information (at
least not at a reasonable price), so TeleAtlas, NavTeq, AND etc. have to
spend millions of man hours collecting it all again, and they don't have
the need to add all the bits and pieces. Hopefully once we (i.e. OSM)
collect the data, it won't need to be collected again.

Robert (Jamie) Munro


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