On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brian Watson wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
h.li...
Evening all,

While pondering the nature of southwest London, i turned to
OpenStreetMap: http://openstreetmap.org/

I noticed that the main road heading out towards Portsmouth was very
straight - a Roman road, i assumed. I hadn't realised that. I
followed it, to see how far it went. And was quite surprised by the
answer. It goes by the name of Strutton Ground, and starts here,
near Parliament:

You do know that there were a lot of straight roads before the Roans
invaded, don't you?

A straight line being the shortest route between two points was not
a Roman discovery.

Has anyone actually looked at the links i posted? Specifically, the
second one?

Yes. But to be fair to them, they do have up-to-date portrayals of Ariel Way
and Rainsford Road, unlike Google Maps and Windows Live Local.

Oh, absolutely - where OSM is good, it's very good indeed. Cambridge is
superb.

My main complaint is that the map on the standard interface isn't
hyperlinky enough - they have all these things marked, which are in their
database, but there's no way to get information on them. I want to be able
to click on a pub, or road, or anything, and get a little popup of
information about it. Even a tooltip or something would be nice.

tom

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