On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:23:16PM +0100, Kake wrote:
On Mon 07 May 2012, Dominic Hargreaves dom@earth.li wrote:
There are also problems to be solved with Geo::Coordinates::OSGB in that the licensing of the data included from the Ordnance Survey is unclear:
Can we get round it by installing Geo::Coordinates::OSGB separately (maybe with cpanm) or does the Debian package insist on all its Perl dependecies being Debian-packaged as well? This affects the Cambridge guide as well as the Oxford one.
How hard would it be to move away from needing Geo::Coordinates::OSGB at all? I've certainly put off adding things to the Oxford Guide because of the hassle of having to convert to OS Grid co-ords from lat/long as produced by my phone's GPS and as easily available from the permalinks on OpenStreetMap. I'd much prefer the front-end to use lat/long, but I don't know how tricky that is, and if that would release the project from the requirement to use the OSTN02 data.
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