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

Tom Taylor tom.taylor.stds at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 15:42:21 UTC 2015


The feedback should go both ways, if OSM members detect errors and know 
where they came from they should report back.

Tom Taylor

On 22/02/2015 9:27 AM, Stefan Keller wrote:
> Hi Jonathan
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> My fist intention is to take this announcement to put pressure on
> other national mapping agencies to release their map data under an
> open license.
>
> But thinking about real openess and cooperation (egov and OSM)
> consider this: Often mapping agencies encourage users to report map
> errors very much like OSM does in order to enhance their data (e.g.
> this http://bit.ly/1p5xVH4). So, I'd like to suggest to national
> mapping agencies to not only release their data but also updates
> coming from such crowdsourced user input.
>
> Cheers, S.
>
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