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

[Stephen Coast]

On 11 Jan 2008, at 04:39, J.D. Schmidt wrote:

> Jon Burgess skrev:
>> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 00:09 +0000, martin dodge wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> The map in his screenshot must be from quite some time ago. The same
>> area of central London now has considerably more data
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.5183&lon=-0.1387&zoom=14&layers=0BFT
>>
>> 	Jon
>
> Hey, what do you expect from someone who is used to a 6 month  
> timeframe
> before new features in the landscape has been mapped, processed and
> included in the mastermap ? Of course she included an old rendering,
> most probably from the London Map Party.

Interestingly no - it's missing large sections that were done that  
weekend. Specifically 80n's bit between Edgware Road and Baker  
Streetish as I remember.

have fun,

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