Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Steve Hill
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Peter Miller wrote: I have been working on adding wiki pages for every County and Unitary Authority in the UK (there are 140 in total) so that we have a consistent place to add this sort of information. There were articles for some and there are about 19 added so far.

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Dave Stubbs
2008/12/11 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com: A quick scoot around our green and pleasant land reveals a number of really unloved places (Why are so many in Lincolnshire!). We need ideas on how to get these places on the map, whether it be motivating the natives or

Re: [Talk-GB] London Olympics

2008-12-12 Thread Tom Chance
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:23:41 -, Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\) ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: Which brings us to another point. We have nearly 4 years to map all the Olympic venues. I wonder if there's scope to do some interesting maps that nobody else will provide as well / quickly?

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Andy Allan
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: For some time we (at ITO) have being planning to do a thematic mapping view of these un-loved places by combining the census data and OSM data. Each census output area covers about 100 households so there must be

Re: [Talk-GB] London Olympics

2008-12-12 Thread Tom Chance
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:43:49 -, Andy Robinson wrote: Tom Chance wrote: I wonder if there's scope to do some interesting maps that nobody else will provide as well / quickly? Or to encourage others to use OSM for their ends? If we want to compete we will have to be smart. The big

Re: [Talk-GB] [Spam] Re: Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 Dec 2008, at 09:13, Steve Hill wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Peter Miller wrote: I have been working on adding wiki pages for every County and Unitary Authority in the UK (there are 140 in total) so that we have a consistent place to add this sort of information. There were articles

[Talk-GB] London Olympics - Was: Mapping the unloved and unwashed

2008-12-12 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Dave Stubbs wrote: Sent: 12 December 2008 9:52 AM To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed 2008/12/11 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com: A quick scoot around our green and pleasant land

Re: [Talk-GB] London Olympics

2008-12-12 Thread Steve Chilton
The official 2012 website has some maps produced by stamen design, whom some may know of, and which use Flash and mapnik. I wrote a short review of this in the Society of Cartographers November newsletter, which is available online at: http://www.soc.org.uk/newslett.htm#latestNewsletter Article is

[Talk-GB] Visit to academics in london

2008-12-12 Thread James Stewart
I am down from Edinburgh university and wondered if any academics at ucl working on osm might have time to meet about work on project. I do mapping, but am interested in doing research on osm. Regards James stewart - Message from talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org - Send Talk-GB

[Talk-GB] Visit to academics in london

2008-12-12 Thread James Stewart
I am down from Edinburgh university and wondered if any academics at ucl working on osm might have time to meet about work on project. I do mapping, but am interested in doing research on osm. Regards James stewart - Message from talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org - Send Talk-GB