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

[Nick Black]

On Jan 11, 2008 11:58 AM, Chris Hill <chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> The presentation by the CEO of the OS shows that she takes OSM *very* seriously, perhaps even seriously enough to show our work in a bad light.

If I was the CEO of a large mapping company and I took OSM seriously I
would either by trying to implement OSM myself (GetMapping), trying to
integrate the concepts of OSM into my own db (AND), supporting OSM
(Multimap, AND).  If I took it *very* seriously, I would be saying
nothing at all (Google, Navteq, Teleatlast) whilst deploying my
engineers to study the source code.

The whole presentation is a "look - I get web 2.0 too".  When I saw VL
present the same "we are the OS" presentation in 2006, it was all
ambulance routing and ESRI Arc GIS.  The inclusion a few OSM slides
along with Google Earth and Facebook screenshots, is VL tyring to show
that she's ontop of things and ready for the next knighthood/civil
service promotion.

Its the same as the Queen releasing her Christmas speech on YouTube.
I don't think HRH lies awake at night worrying about the effect
YouTube is having on the BBC.


>
> cheers,
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: martin dodge <m.dodge at manchester.ac.uk>
> > To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> > Sent: Friday, 11 January, 2008 12:09:59 AM
> > Subject: [OSM-talk] Why place matters, slides from Vanessa Lawrence talk
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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
> >
> > cheers
> > martin
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