FYI: I added MakeIt Labs' driveway + parking area to OpenStreetMap,
the other day. It looks like it's propagated into the OSM-based
`MapQuest Open' site:
http://open.mapquest.com/?q=MakeIt+Labs
If you ask it for driving directions, it'll still stop early on Crown
Street rather than leading around to the driveway--not sure if that's
due to a failure to properly connect things up on my part, or if it's
due to some shortcoming in MapQuest's routing model.
The `big map of hackerspaces' on technomancy.org had a bug that was
preventing it from updating, but I talked to Rory and fixed that--
so now it's there, too.
Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> writes:
>
> Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> writes:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> > <roz...@geekspace.com>wrote:
> >
> > > chris gagnon <chris.gag...@makeitlabs.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > > Topic: Joshua Rosen will be talking about taking over an maintaining
> > > > an open source project <http://www.foxtrotgps.org/> and GPS
> [...]
> > > > http://makeitlabs.com/about/map/
>
> [antiquated manually-crafted driving-directions elided...]
> [explanations about how confusing it can be to find the place elided...]
>
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.75491&lon=-71.45286&zoom=17&layers=M
> > I think I should add a mention of the OpenStreetMap project to this
> > thread. It seems particularly relevant since FoxtrotGPS uses data from
> > OpenStreetMap and the above descriptions of how to get to MakeIt Labs seem
> > like they are really wanting for a very detailed map. OpenStreetMap is
> > only as detailed and accurate as the volunteer contributors want to make
> > it. I've been adding a lot of details to the map in southern NH, though I
> > have not yet made it to this part of Nashua. I'd love to have more people
> > using their local knowledge to make the map of NH better, and I would be
> > happy to answer any questions about contributing to or using the
> > OpenStreetMap data.
>
> Good point! FoxtrotGPS's new user manual also encourages users to
> contribute to OpenStreetMap, and includes some notes on how to make
> tracks to that end.
>
> I just added a node for MakeIt Labs to OpenStreetMap:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2131081947
>
> The main (Mapnik) render is already updated to include the label (if you
> zoom in far enough), and the Nominatim service can find it by name
> <http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=MakeIt+Labs> (so typing
> "MakeIt Labs" into the search-box on the main openstreetmap.org works);
> the OSM map *of hackerspaces* <http://www.technomancy.org/osm-hackerspaces/>
> should update in the next day or so.
>
> Maybe someone else can take a trip over there and make/upload a track of the
> driveway (per <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:service=driveway>)
> before the meeting? I guess if nobody does it until then, we can fire up
> JOSM on-site and upload the driveway during the meeting....
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