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

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 11 Jan 2008, at 09:22, Nick Black wrote:

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

We can time how long it would take them to fix it.

>
> 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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