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

Tim Dobson lists at tdobson.net
Fri Aug 29 16:39:39 BST 2008


I think this was meant for the list. :)

Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> 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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