On 10/7/06, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
Open Street Map?
Gordo
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.
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...
On 10/9/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
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...
Focus on natural features that don't change a vast amount see some of our articles on various lakes in the lake disrtict. In any case after further contacts I don't think we will be able to get any OS map scans out of them for the time being.
The Imperial War Museum will only release material under one of the most impressively non free lisences I've ever seen. So much for that one.
Ok I've finaly found a source that doesn't try an impose silly conditions. The University of Glasgow has a pretty good collection covering scotland. Coppies won't be free but their prices are pretty good.
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