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OpenStreetMap community@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago

Ordnance Survey now publishes its data in OpenStreetMap format

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Ordnance Survey now publishes its data in OpenStreetMap format

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OpenStreetMap community@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago

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2004: OpenStreetMap is founded because Ordnance Survey won’t make their data open

2024: Ordnance Survey now publishes its data in OpenStreetMap format because that’s what people expect

– Richard Fairhurst @richardf

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@Mex That’s @richardf on the Fediverse btw.
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  thanks for the heads up.
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I’m guessing like most of their “open” stuff this will also be deliberately degraded to the point of being nearly useless?

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