Ordnance Survey now publishes its data in OpenStreetMap format (twitter.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Mex@feddit.uk to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 5 points 7 months ago

@Mex That's @richardf on the Fediverse btw.

[-] Mex@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

thanks for the heads up.

[-] InsertUser@en.osm.town 1 points 7 months ago

@Mex
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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