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

[Jo]

80n wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 8:18 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net 
> <mailto: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/
>     <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.
42, wasn't that the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the 
Universe, and Everything?