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

Nick Black nickblack1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 09:22:18 GMT 2008


We should catalogue the errors and send them back into the OS so they
can do better next time.

On Jan 11, 2008 8:47 AM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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