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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
now i like this , like raist says , a uk version would be good  |
One of the reasons the US gets this kind of thing before the UK is that much GIS/map data in the US is public domain, whereas in the UK it's almost all owned by Ordnance Survey (once a publicly owned, government outfit) who don't supply any useful amount of digital mapping data either for free, or for amounts that allows in individual, inventive, software writer to develop stuff like this.
Considering that so much of the OS data over the centuries was gathered with public money, it's a disgrace that none of it is made more freely available for entrepeneurs in this country.
Once an idea has been proven in the US, then it's much simpler to justify the expenditure to obtain the reguired digital mapping data for the UK. So we find that US companies are better placed to make the most of the available data than UK innovators/companies.