Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham
Agree about PR value of timely information. Thanks Christoph, Andy, Brian. Meanwhile, I'm posting the updates to Twitter. Is there a way for new and inexperienced mappers to participate in updating the map? Andrew On 14 Jan 2010, at 17:31, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: That would be the plan. It's still fresh in everyone's minds right now so I suspect the newspapers would pick up on it if we got it done in the next few days and that’s a real possibility. Might be nice to do something jointly with BCC too. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Jeni Sent: 14 January 2010 5:23 PM To: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham If we can get this to a point where it is more or less complete (for the area) before the next big freeze happens, there could be some good PR for OSM in the local area if someone were to issue a press release? Jeni Christoph Böhme wrote: Hi all, I created a map overlay showing the gritting routes (there are not many yet!) in Birmingham: http://mappa-mercia.org/bham-gritting/ The overlay works only from zoom layer 10-16. It is also not automatically updated. So, please drop me an email when you added new routes [1] and want them to appear on the map. Cheers, Christoph [1] Andy put a list of all routes up on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BirminghamGrittingPriority ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham
Andrew, I'd say probably not for totally new mappers as while the process of adding the additional tags is easy quite a lot of streets are only partly gritted and so you have to split up where required. Also a bit of thought has to go in to work out what happens at some roundabouts in terms of whether they are in the BCC gritting action and which priority they are. Having said that, anyone who has done a bit of mapping will find it pretty easy to do. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Andrew Mackenzie [mailto:a.macken...@bethere.co.uk] Sent: 14 January 2010 5:52 PM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham Agree about PR value of timely information. Thanks Christoph, Andy, Brian. Meanwhile, I'm posting the updates to Twitter. Is there a way for new and inexperienced mappers to participate in updating the map? Andrew On 14 Jan 2010, at 17:31, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: That would be the plan. It's still fresh in everyone's minds right now so I suspect the newspapers would pick up on it if we got it done in the next few days and thats a real possibility. Might be nice to do something jointly with BCC too. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Jeni Sent: 14 January 2010 5:23 PM To: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham If we can get this to a point where it is more or less complete (for the area) before the next big freeze happens, there could be some good PR for OSM in the local area if someone were to issue a press release? Jeni Christoph Böhme wrote: Hi all, I created a map overlay showing the gritting routes (there are not many yet!) in Birmingham: http://mappa-mercia.org/bham-gritting/ The overlay works only from zoom layer 10-16. It is also not automatically updated. So, please drop me an email when you added new routes [1] and want them to appear on the map. Cheers, Christoph [1] Andy put a list of all routes up on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BirminghamGrittingPriority ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham
Looks like Christoph will be doing lots of re-rendering! As a by product I've discovered that lots of the primary/trunk roads which were mapped in the early days don't have names which makes the job interesting! If we make the effort what's the betting that we just have mild weather from now on? regards brian ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham
Where are we getting all the information from? I would like very much to do my bit (though I'd prefer to focus on the Bromsgrove area, if that data is available somewhere :), then there is scope for PR to the Bromsgrove papers too) Jeni ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham
Nice idea. I will add the overlay to the main mappa-mercia website over the weekend. Lets hope for some more snow :-) Cheers, Christoph Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\) ajrli...@googlemail.com schrieb: That would be the plan. It's still fresh in everyone's minds right now so I suspect the newspapers would pick up on it if we got it done in the next few days and that’s a real possibility. Might be nice to do something jointly with BCC too. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: talk-gb-westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- westmidlands-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Jeni Sent: 14 January 2010 5:23 PM To: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham If we can get this to a point where it is more or less complete (for the area) before the next big freeze happens, there could be some good PR for OSM in the local area if someone were to issue a press release? Jeni Christoph Böhme wrote: Hi all, I created a map overlay showing the gritting routes (there are not many yet!) in Birmingham: http://mappa-mercia.org/bham-gritting/ The overlay works only from zoom layer 10-16. It is also not automatically updated. So, please drop me an email when you added new routes [1] and want them to appear on the map. Cheers, Christoph [1] Andy put a list of all routes up on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BirminghamGrittingPriority ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham
Brian Prangle wrote: Sent: 14 January 2010 6:06 PM To: Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Gritting routes in Birmingham Looks like Christoph will be doing lots of re-rendering! As a by product I've discovered that lots of the primary/trunk roads which were mapped in the early days don't have names which makes the job interesting! If we make the effort what's the betting that we just have mild weather from now on? I spotted missing names too. Luckily the NaPTAN data helps fix them as most are bus routes too. I'm praying for good weather anyway. I want to get out on the bike! Cheers Andy ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
