As far as I know he was legitimately given the plates as scrap, but I'm using a sock puppet to avoid any possibility of OS deciding that the plates are theirs after all and going after him.
OS map styling is beautiful, but folding maps is the work of devils. You must remember trying to pin sections down so you could see across the paper splits caused by the pure evilness that is folding. It is possible my rage might also be caused by growing up on the point of a four-way boundary in Explorer and Landranger format.
More seriously though, do they no longer teach at least basic navigation skills in school? It still feels, to me, like it is an essential life skill. If only for being able to assess the validity of your phone's answers in the most general case.
The coloured trails you can see at more detailed zoom levels, are part of the hiking trail system. The outdoor signage even has a national technical norm [^2] (in Slovak, but has some terminology translated int to English and German).
[1] https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka?x=19.8702765&y=48.7675046&z=14 [2] http://www.jazdecka-turistika.sk/images/stories/dokumenty/KT...
Also, a bit lame that on mapy.cz, you have to click on the "and others" to actually see the OpenStreetMap credit.
[1]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/48.75343/19.87948
Základní, Turistická, Zimní a další níže neuvedené mapy:
„© Seznam.cz, a.s.”
„© AOPK ČR – ochrana přírody a krajiny”
„© Slovenská agentúra živ. prostredia” – digitální model terénu SR
„© Národné lesnické centrum SR” – lesní a polní cesty SR
„© Přispěvatelé OpenStreetMap”
Letecká mapa (ortofotomapa): „© Seznam.cz, a.s.” (zoom 9-20 jen v ČR)
„© TopGis, s.r.o.” (zoom 9-20 jen v ČR)
„© EUROSENSE s.r.o.” (zoom 9-19 jen SR)
„© GEODIS Slovakia s.r.o.” (zoom 9-19 jen SR)
„© www.basemap.at” (zoom 9-19 jen Rakousko)
„© NASA Earth Observatory” (zoom 2-8)
„© Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017” (zoom 8-13 jen Evropa mimo ČR, SR)
„© Microsoft Corporation” (zoom 14-19 jen mimo ČR a SR)
Archivní Letecká mapa '15, '12, '06 a '03: „© GEODIS BRNO, s.r.o.” (zoom 9-20 jen v ČR)
„© EUROSENSE s.r.o.” (zoom 9-19 jen SR)
„© GEODIS Slovakia s.r.o.” (zoom 9-19 jen SR)
„© NASA Earth Observatory” (zoom 2-7)
„© Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017” (zoom 8-13 jen mimo ČR a SR)
Historická mapa (z 19. století): „© 2nd Military Survey, Austrian State Archive”
„© Datový podklad MŽP ČR”
„© Laboratoř geoinformatiky UJEP”
Panorama: „© Seznam.cz, a.s.”
„© GIS - Stavinvex, a.s.”
„© TopGis, s.r.o.”
„© GEODIS BRNO, s.r.o.”
3D mapa: „© Seznam.cz, a.s.”
„© Melown Maps™”
„© TopGis, s.r.o.“
„© GEODIS BRNO, s.r.o.”
„© www.basemap.at” (zoom 9-19 jen Rakousko)
„© NASA Earth Observatory” (zoom 2-8)
„© Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017” (zoom 8-13 jen Evropa mimo ČR, SR)
„© Microsoft Corporation“ (zoom 14-19 jen mimo ČR a SR)”
“©2005-16 Jonathan de Ferranti”
“© Přispěvatelé OpenStreetMap”Take this for example, which got some front page news time in the UK:
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/dec/27/walk-th...
- https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jun/13/how-the-slow-...
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54562137
Pretty much the entire thing is taken from OSM and there isn't a single mention of that on any of those pages.
(and as I understand it, Slow Ways haven't contributed back their changes to OSM which is required by the OSM license).
https://napoveda.seznam.cz/cz/mapy/mapy-licencni-podminky/li...
But that might be cultural (de)formation of a previously young person who used to hike with paper maps of similar style.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...
It sees where you are, finds incomplete items on OSM and asks you if you know things about them. Very handy to use as you're walking around, and a very easy way to submit data to OSM.
If you do find an area with missing data, do feel free to create an account and add it yourself.
That's literally the only way the open source map gets better.
Someone else was more persistent, and managed to get my suburb as existing after five years.
There's a lot more to it than just nobody having volunteered to do the legwork yet.
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources
In my experience, the satellite imagery available in the OSM editor to trace buildings and paths (which the other commenter was talking about) - and when I want to add shops and other things; a quick survey with some photos - are both more than enough for most things.
There's an oxymoron here. Many public data sources that are free to use, do in fact have copyright considerations to be made, correct.
However, "public domain" does not have copyright terms attached. That is why it is in the public domain. If something is actually public domain, there is no copyright holder, and no terms to be enforced.
- Having the whole of the Lake District on a single map.
- Printing on plastic so they don't get damaged and are more compact than the OS laminated maps
- Excluding political boundaries as I don't care about them
- Showing the location of the footpath as well as its legal location; sometimes they're on different sides of the wall
- The reverse of the map usually gives you detailed information on the layers of rock beneath your feet which is interesting for extra reading.
Beats my days in the army when we had to laminate each map by hand. They were a nightmare to fold after that
I don’t miss folding paper maps but my comment was about the mapping data not the physical medium. Thankfully you can now have OS maps electronically. Best of both worlds.
Though at least paper maps have their unique quality that they still retain their data even after your batteries go flat ;) I joke but actually that can be be invaluable if you’re camping and hiking over multi-days. Also useful if you end up anywhere with low mobile phone coverage.
> More seriously though, do they no longer teach at least basic navigation skills in school? It still feels, to me, like it is an essential life skill. If only for being able to assess the validity of your phone's answers in the most general case.
Good question. I assumed they wouldn’t because the curriculum is pretty jam packed. But after after asking your question to teacher friend, it seems they still do teach map reading.
This thread did teach me that there are a few more usable print options for sale on the OS website too, which is great.
> it seems they still do teach map reading.
That pleases me. I'm strongly of the opinion we should be teaching to the available tools(phone maps/calculators/etc), but with enough preliminary knowledge to understand implications and judge validity.
And every year people die after they decide to go trekking with only a phone and gmaps, and it runs out of power and they get lost.
As a long distance through hiker I find paper maps invaluable. They are lighter than a gps and don’t require batteries. They provide a greater perspective than you can experience through a screen — very important when plotting a route (trail info tends to be quite out or date here in the US). I always carry paper maps.
I've learnt from this thread that Ordnance Survey produce a surprising number of formats beyond the common pre-folded maps, even including custom runs¹ that also fix my trapped-on-a-map-boundary complaint. Peering through the window of my local outdoor supplies shop this afternoon showed only a rack of the folded ones sadly.
The USGS has stopped printing maps so the choice these days is commercial ones or downloading and printing at home (which eliminates both the size advantage and the high resolution of offset printing).
If you find yourself in a position needed map data for the UK I would behove you to try OS out rather than defaulting to the regular big-tech names.
The problem with the official government maps is that they are official. If a hiking trail is nothing more than a trodden path through the brush, they won't show it as it's not an official path. If they'd put it on there they'd admit it would be a path and be on the hook for upkeep etc. Google Maps is also really bad for this usecase as I believe they get most of their data from the governments.
So when it comes to really obscure paths which are pretty essential to hiking, the government maps are not as good. OSM shows how it is in reality, the government maps show how they want things to be :)
But like I said, perhaps the UK is different in that sense.
you have the entire country at down to 1:3000, but the best ones are around 1:25000.
It no doubt depends on the application, but for hiking I've found the Harvey BMC maps to be much more usable than the OS maps. The 1:40000 scale is a happy median between the Landranger and Explorer series and printed on plastic rather than laminated they're much easier to handle.
https://www.harveymaps.co.uk/acatalog/british-mountain-maps....
Meanwhile google maps is merrily directing vehicluar traffic down a precipitous footpath to get stuck in the ford at the bottom despite endless attempts at getting them to correct it.
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic...