On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:25:25 +1100 Liz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote: > > Cameron wrote: > > > I wonder if it would be feasible to map the whole of Naracoorte > > > for $400? To do it on the cheap you could camp at the > > > showgrounds. Would need power for a laptop and > > > battery/gps/dictaphone charging and I don't know if they have > > > that. Bus (one way from adelaide) is $57.10 for an adult or > > > $28.55 concession or you could drive there. Then bike or drive > > > around for a couple of days. Could do the data entry there and > > > then go out and recheck some areas, or could come home and > > > possibly have another visit later. > > > > > > Does anyone know about tracing from arial photography? The town > > > might have some which could be of use and save time surveying. > > > > I'd do it off my own bat, just for the fun of it, but if I go > > anywhere near Naracoorte, my clients end up finding out and bail me > > up for tech support or software feature requests or something... > > > > Naracoorte isn't that big - probably mappable in a weekend easily > > enough (perhaps 70 streets, plus POIs). > > Definitely a small place - two days of cycling would do a good job. > Our Adelaide based student has gone to Orange for summer to work, so > he can't be persuaded to go there until after Uni starts next year. > > You would still have time to trip out to the caves and map a bit out > there as well.
After Matt's original post I was pondering much the same idea, figured $400 would more than pay for petrol and a hotel going on recent trips I've done around SA this year where I've combined orienteering with a little OSM. Auburb, Saddleworth, Hawker and Meningie all only took me about an hour each so I can easily see someone wrapping up Naracoorte in a whole weekend given Naracoorte can't be much bigger than twice those 4 put together. Have a talk to your clients Matt I might even be interested in doing it myself if I could find the weekend to fit it in. I know from talking to people in Riverton and Saddleworth (mums place) that a lot of small towns really wish they had a usable map avaliable, so handing them a relevant pdf dump from osm made them very happy. Futher thinking about this had me wondering just how much latent interest for these kinds of maps there might be out there and whether one could setup a 'map a town' register where people pledge amounts to get the town mapped on OSM and then when it reaches a threshold to fund someone you call in the donations and do it. More of an issue here than overseas I think due to our very sparse population, if there's 1 serious mapper every 100,000 people then that's only about 200 to cover all of .au and 1,500 for the .uk. And it's so far for many of us to get to areas relatively unmapped. -- =b _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
