Comments on: Ordnance Survey embraces UGC.. it’s a start

By: free the os

free the os — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:19:45 +0000

Well you would have thought that some of the explore developers might just look at the blog. If they did then would they have notified the OS management? If the management were notified then would we expect them to do anything? Perhaps the presence of the public facing explore WMS is being left as a ‘Leak’ on purpose.

Of course the Google Maps API can be used to display tiles from the explore WMS too. Ed, are you or Google going to be the first to dare to publish such a page?!

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:05:49 +0000

@ free the OS, either the OS is very open in it’s comments policy, or the moderator does not understand he contents of that blog post.

Still you have to be impressed by the Openlayers framework, better than the original OS slippy map for sure, and of course it’s an API.

By: free the os

free the os — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:03:37 +0000

perhaps that should be an eTrespass

By: free the os

free the os — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:55:43 +0000

A month goes by and still the explore blog has a link to an openlayers viewer for the explore WMS !

I suggest we encourage the public to do a new Kinder trespass by using

http://ge.pythonmoo.co.uk/maps/osmap.htm

(sadly only seems to work properly in Firefox)

Hope the pythonmoo server can take it. Oh And you can print nice big maps from this site too.

By: Ordnance Survey Explore (Beta) | geo2web.com

Ordnance Survey Explore (Beta) | geo2web.com — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:09:29 +0000

[...] Ed Parsons (ex Ordnance Survey) also mentions it in his blog [...]

By: Duncan Garratt

Duncan Garratt — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:52:05 +0000

It couldn’t agree with you more Simon, for Ordnance Survey one would expect their software to be cutting edge and to be a leading light in the GIS World! How far the mighty have fallen compared to 50 or 100 years ago when the Ordnance Survey and Britain were the market leaders in cartography throughout the World! It makes me very sad to see that so many civil servants are living of the fat of this once proud institution and as well as receiving their salaries are also accumulating a good pension at the same time, whilst at the same time ripping of the taxpayer and the private sector by their overpricing of map data! Don’t get me wrong there are some very good people in the OS, but they are a small minority who are extremely dedicated. As for the rest if they had any honour or pride they would resign because they are simply not up to the job and the challenges now facing OS. The piece of software mentioned here is a good case in point as it is around 8 years behind the times, and represents around 3 months work for a good single GIS programmer. How many developers were on the OS development team and for how long, plus project managers etc, and at what cost? A very pertinent question that OS should answer! I think I will ask the question under the freedom of information act, and post the answer on the web!

Duncan Garratt
http://www.gis-logic.co.uk/

By: kartentisch » Ordnance Survey: Portal für selbstgemachte Landkarten

kartentisch » Ordnance Survey: Portal für selbstgemachte Landkarten — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:24:20 +0000

[...] in dem man Karten für eigene Touren erstellen kann: Explore. Ums mit dem Ex-CTO der Behörde zu sagen: Es ist ein Anfang. (Und außerdem, wie sich das gehört, noch in [...]

By: Simon Hudds

Simon Hudds — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:09:18 +0000

Not exactly earth shattering is it! I mean its 2007, and this technology has been out for ages – and the best OS have come up with is a very basic map explorer that you can edit some routes on! I think its shameful that the country’s leading map supplier can only come up with this half baked idea, when there are so many other sites that do so much more. They should be leading the way and not dragging their heels in this area of technology. Rubbish.