[OGDev] Fwd: YAPC Europe 2007 Reminder - CFP and CFH DeadlinesApproaching

[M.B.Gaved]

A naive response from a non-programmer (who is highly grateful for all the cool work you are doing) - I'd partly agree with Simon, my preference would be something that allows us to choose between mapping systems as they  improve on each other.

Ideally openstreetmaps or another free+open format would be the goal but in Milton Keynes right now Google give us the best resolution. I suspect as Simon notes best quality option varies from locality to locality. We're intending on having a push on openstreetmapping but I can't see it happening comprehensively for a year or so here.

regards and thanks again!

Mark (Milton Keynes Open Guide)
http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/



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Subject: Re: [OGDev] Fwd: YAPC Europe 2007 Reminder - CFP and CFH DeadlinesApproaching
 
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:50:55PM -0400, Daniel Packer wrote:
> 
>              advanced google maps,

  Just picking on one bit!  Can we reduce that to "advanced maps"?  I
  don't mind if, at the end of the day, consensus is that google is
  the way forward, but it seems to me (as a non-programmer) that
  google got a headstart by being the first "slippy" map with a
  decent API.  For Oxford, at least, there are better free (as in
  beer and maybe as in speech) maps available from a user point of
  view
  
  * The aerial photography in maps.live.com is way better, cos Google
  still don't have Oxford in a decent resolution (everything to the
  east, but it stops at the ring-road.
  
  * The maps from maps.live.com are better than google, showing more
  paths and other non-car routes, but even better (where it exists)
  is the data from openstreetmap - and that's getting better all the
  time.  In most of Oxford we've now got every cyclepath and footpath
  as well as streets covered - and that's important when pubs for
  example are only accessible by towpath or other footroute. Compare
  for example the "Map" and "Mapnik" links on the map at
  http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Perch and suddenly you see
  another way of getting there (the Mapnik link is images made from
  fairly old openstreetmap data of Oxford).

  s

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