[OSM-talk] Why place matters, slides from Vanessa Lawrence talk

[80n]

On Jan 11, 2008 8:18 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> martin dodge wrote:
>
> > Just found an interesting set of slides of a talk by Vanessa
> > Lawrence, OS
> > http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/presentations/
> > VL_why_place_matters.pdf
> > with some prominent mentions for OSM. I particularly liked slide 46
>
> That's rather nice!
>
> Mrs F points out, however, that the photo in slide 32 ("22 Pine
> Street, Swindon") is almost certainly not in Swindon, and indeed
> there is no Pine Street in Swindon. So I'd be very wary of taking the
> slide's suggestion to route ambulances using OS data. Much more
> reliable to use OSM. ;)
>

And on slide 42, Wellington is a place in Somerset, not Northumberland.

80n


>
> cheers
> Richard
>
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