On 07/10/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/7/06, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
Open Street Map?
I know about them but they are working on current maps and for the foreseeable future will not be able to match OS in terms of quality. I think they looked into useing old maps for some reason or another they abandoned that rout.
Streetmaps, at a guess, are the thing you absolutely *don't* want to use fifty-year-old material for - you'd need to change so many little details even in the best cases, and rewrite (or create) huge swathes of the map virtually everywhere else.
On the other hand, if you can think of some way to cleanly extract contour details...