[OSM-talk] "Travel like a KLocal" series of printed maps

Mark Wagner mark+osm at carnildo.com
Tue Oct 9 18:24:59 UTC 2018


On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 16:48:56 +0200
Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> someone has written to DWG because they were disappointed with a
> "Travel like a Local" map they bought on Amazon. Apparently there's
> an author there named "Maxwell Fox" who churns out these "Books"
> which promise, among other things:

> ...

> Is this a new phenomenon? Has anyone seen any of these maps, or seen a
> report about them? The Amazon listing doesn't say the data comes from
> OSM, but I guess the printed work must, otherwise the complainant
> would not have written to us...

I'm surprised it took them this long to discover OSM.  People have been
churning out the Wikipedia equivalent for over a decade now.

-- 
Mark



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