[OSM-talk] What is "OS OpenMap" (UK)?

[john whelan]

Interesting question Canada has a very similar license.

Cheerio John

On 22 February 2015 at 07:11, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:

> From the news: OKFN wrote "Ordnance Survey announced that their OS
> OpenData Licence is to be replaced by the Open Government Licence
> v3.0."
> https://twitter.com/OKFN/status/569094359204929536
> Commented by a blog post of the Open Data Institute:
> http://theodi.org/blog/ordnance-survey-govco-open-data
>
> Finally: "Ordnance Survey is announcing it will launch a world-leading
> digital map as open data" (www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk); "OS OpenMap – a
> new ‘street level’ vector dataset designed to be the most detailed
> open data mapping product available, providing a backdrop for
> integrating and visualising analytical data."
>
> 1. Is this "OS OpenMap" worldwide or UK bound?
> 2. How does this "world-leading" digital map look like (map style)?
> 3. And what does this mean to OSM?
>
> Yours, S.
>
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