I'm giving a talk for Cyclox members telling them about OpenStreetMap on the coming Thursday, handing out pencil-and-paper mapping packs with SAEs. Given that we already have all of the streets, pretty much, we can hopefully get the Cyclox people to tell us about all the cheats, shortcuts and useful infrastructure that they know and we don't (yet).
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1495928/ West Oxford Community Centre. Quite near the station. It'll also be a social gathering, in the same slot as and replacing a regular Cyclox meetup, with pizza and pub afterwards. Free nibbles up front if you get there early. -- blurb -- Creating a living map for Oxford's cyclists using OpenStreetMap. Introductory presentation to OpenStreetMap West Oxford Community Centre, the Marytown Room 22nd January 2009, arrive 6PM for 7 start http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.752591&mlon=-1.274948&zoom=16 Refreshments provided beforehand, 30 to 45 mins presentation and Q&A, stay for pizza and an informal chat afterwards. Cyclox, the University of Oxford, and OpenStreetMap will be working together over the next few months to create a detailed map of the city that meets the needs of cyclists using a grass-roots approach. The map will be made by cyclists, for cyclists, and as part of the process we need to gather information from as wide a spectrum of Oxford cyclists as possible. We need a good number of volunteers interested in performing an active on-street survey to help us do this, so if you're interested, please come along to the meeting! * Cyclox is the cycling campaign group for Oxford. * OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
