A mapping party would be cool. August maybe?
Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, On 5 Jun 2007, at 13:51, Daniel Glassey wrote: > Hi, > I can't remember who has been doing Edinburgh but there is a talk > about OSM at Debconf[1], the Debian conference. afair it is on 18th > June. Sometime during the week following that it would be great if a > group of us could help with mapping. Looking at the calendar on the wiki there is Chris Fleming who is going to talk to the Edinburgh Linux Users Group on June 7th. Your event doesn't appear to be in the calendar. [0] I'm currently in Sighthill in the west of the city. [1] Going by JOSM, I'm currently one of the main mappers. I should have time and space here, if you need wifi/power/shelter. Currently there is no real strategy in Edinburgh as far as I'm aware. The wiki page is very out of date. [2] > > For the folks there in Edinburgh what is the best thing we can help > with - most people will be on foot and public transport? And will you > be able to get along and help? There are a lot of areas that have segment, but no ways. I have been going through many of them and turning them into ways so that they show up on the map. However I have not been naming them. It would be a good thing to get them named, and this would be able to be done by those who don't have GPSs. The areas that I know of that need wayified, names added or more work to tidy them up are primarily: http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? lat=55.924773895703304&lon=-3.2984263206919593&zoom=16 http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? lat=55.933116488584076&lon=-3.307052303015519&zoom=15 http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? lat=55.95445765446907&lon=-3.301902462822349&zoom=14 http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? lat=55.96082408005075&lon=-3.2016093250603617&zoom=15 http://www.informationfreeway.org/? lat=55.981773200814416&lon=-3.2022135474480926&zoom=14&layers=B000T00 Search for name FIXME and use the maplint layer on the informationfreeway are my recommendations for finding some areas that need some TLC. The very city centre seems to be well covered. http://www.informationfreeway.org/? lat=55.981773200814416&lon=-3.2022135474480926&zoom=14&layers=B000T00 has an issue with the docks, that I'm not sure how to fix. The main public transport company in the Edinburgh area is Lothian Buses [3]. They have a flash route map which is useful, and fairly cheap day tickets. [4] Shaun [....] [0]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Template:Calendar [1]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? lat=55.919603952774914&lon=-3.28480070184753&zoom=15 [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Edinburgh [3]: http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/ [4]: http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/routemap.shtml and http:// www.lothianbuses.co.uk/tickets.shtml _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
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