Out of the blue, I've been asked to advise Cyclox, a local cyclists' advocacy group about improving [upon] the Oxfordshire County Council's cycle map for the city of Oxford[1], and I've said I'll help out. It sounds like a great opportunity: the bike group is enthusiastic and community- focused, and there may be some gathering of data involved, so it might feed back into OSM that way. They sound enthusiastic about gathering data of interest to cyclists down to the level of bike parking locations and capacities[2], so by doing what they'd do to benefit themselves we'd benefit too. Which would be nice.
Are there any general pointers out there for this kind of outreach stuff? I'd be interested to know how many OSMers out there on talk have done this sort of thing in the past too, and if they have any experiences they'd like to share. (I really like the look of the so-called "Cheltenham Standard", http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Cheltenham_Standard , which RichardF dredged up a while back on #osm. I wonder how/if that could be implemented in a Mapnik ruleset...) [1] http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cyclemaps [2] I've done a bit of bike parking mapping myself recently: http://www.opencyclemap.org/?zoom=15&lat=51.75321&lon=-1.25636 Wonder if that might have been selling the project locally? -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
