[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net
Tue Nov 8 18:54:49 UTC 2016


Andy Mabbett wrote:
> This is hardly surprising, and not unreasonable (there's no 
> "Ford Beetle" or "Volkswagen Mini", nor a "BurgerKing 
> Happy Meal". for example).

Though there is Ordnance Survey Street View, which pre-dates Google Street
View by several years. (It's soon to be replaced by OS Open Map Local.)

FWIW, I like the "-scape" suffix, e.g. OpenStreetscape:

     https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/streetscape

Richard



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