There was a thread on this mailing list a few days ago about the series (I hope I will get a chance to listen to the recordings online). OSM's Steve Chilton will be interviewed on two episodes and got the full programme for us: Full list of programmes is (with key words), 3-45 to 4pm Radio 4 each day:
Mon 22nd - Map makers - OS Tue 23rd - Mapping the metropolis - Manchester and A-Z London Wed 24th - Motoring maps - road atlases and satnavs Thu 25th - Social mapping - mashups and crowdsourcing Fri 26th - The lie of the land - borders, stats, politics Mon 29th - World View - territories, travel Tu 30th - Off the map - military Wed 31st - Whose map is it anyway - future of OS Thu 1 Apr - Digital maps - OpenStreetMap and the future Fri 2 Apr - Maps of the Mind - Archers, mental maps Regarding the Ambridge map: No the main OSM database should not host fictional data (especially that which doesn't have any specific location to start from). This (fictional mapping) has been done before (by the Germans!) to much outrage (by the mailing list trolls!). Someone could use OSM tools (database copy, server, render, even api, and then perhaps a wiki page to organise working on it and publicising it) to create and host the map though, and this good give just as much good publicity. But it's a lot of work, and I'm not sure why you'd do that when your have no lat/lon data coming in (only relative approximate distances), so you wouldn't benefit from much of the lat/lon handling/features the tools provide. Plus cartography is much easier when you manually control it, rather than the OSM automated renders doing their best effort. Think about text labels for all the farm and house names, you can manually place them where you like so they don't cover up roads or map detail. Okay, one thing that is good is the collaboration side OSM tools allow. I suppose this archers map could have a quick start, and then it will need the fanatics that can refer back to (or look up) an episode 10 years ago where it took someone N minutes to run from X to Y, and remember that 3 episodes later the person said how fast they run. You get the picture, editing the data and sources! But are we expecting the people that collect the data are able to use current OSM editors, or even understand map making? Such an OSM-sister project might provide some insights to getting new recruits, or experimentation with people writing descriptions and others entering it into the DB. Okay, I'll stop thinking out loud now. On 22 March 2010 08:40, UrbanRambler <[email protected]> wrote: > There is apparently a series of 15 minute radio programmes on > Cartography starting today at 15:45 on Radio 4. > The trailer mentioned attempts to create a map of Ambridge, based on the > clues given during its long history. > I wonder if OSM should host this 'map'? Apart from providing providing > entertainment for the tagging-war enthusiasts, OSM could get massive > publicity and hits from the thousands of (influential) Archer followers. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Gregory [email protected] http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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