[OSM-talk] Map of last resort

[Thomas Wood]

2008/11/5 Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>:
> Steve Chilton wrote:
>
>> Amongst all the US Election mapping frenzy there was a good callout for
>> OSM on Ogle Earth yesterday entitled:- OSM: your map of last resort
>> http://www.ogleearth.com/index.html
>
> via which I notice this:
>
> http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2008/11/wikimapia-beta-realtime-editable-map-of.html
>
> which appears to be "Wikimapia tries to do OSM by pretending that, if
> you stick your head in the sand, all this nasty licensing stuff will
> go away".
>
> cheers
> Richard
>

They dont seem to be doing particularly well so far, London for
example appears to be the same low-res VMAP0 data that The People's
Map seemed to use as their basemap.
http://www.wikimapia.org/beta/#lat=51.5142979&lon=-0.0597382&z=11&l=0&m=w&v=1

Although, it does have the boundaries, I wonder where they were
sourced from - since Gmaps doesnt have them for sure.

Regards,
Thomas Wod