Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > graham wrote: >> Sent: 01 December 2008 4:07 PM >> To: osm >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Where have all the contributors gone? >> >> >> I've just realised - I have a house to let in a beautiful largely >> unmapped part of Italy and was wondering where to find customers. Now I >> know ;-) > > What part? How Big? Is it available for a mapping party :-) >
http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=42.45526825544973&lon=13.927090173991406&zoom=17&layers=B0000F000F The area is Abruzzo. Penne (my town) itself is 'done' - except that a lot is guesswork as the streets are too narrow to get a good signal and you have to do it from odd points. None of the other small towns in the area are even started. We've just about done the 'A' roads but lots of the others are undone. For the rest of Abruzzo: one person has done Pescara (the capital, on the coast) and one Montesilvano, which joins on to it. One person is doing Lanciano further south, and one just started on L'Aquila (the other big town), but all the other towns the same size as Penne (eg. Chieti, Citta Sant Angelo, Atri) are still to do. There's another person in osm with a house to let near Teramo (also not mapped), about 40km north of Penne but the road between is so wiggly it makes me feel ill.. It's a very hilly area, you need to be fit if you're cycling (and I don't have a bike there) - but loads of little kids go shooting up the hills, cycling is a big sport in the area. Obviously it's flatter near the coast; the mountain has a huge plateau on top with trails and horse trekking routes - not in winter though. There is a lot of scope for walking mapping round small old towns, and for driving mapping round country roads. My place has one double-bedroom, one with two single beds, one living room with sofa bed, two bathrooms. For a mapping party I'd have to cover my (fairly minimal) costs but have convinced my missis we could do it without charging otherwise, as long as it isn't in the really peak season. There is an english lady in Penne who runs a B&B and does walking tours - she is grumbling about the lack of available printed maps to give her customers, and I was hoping to get round to doing a contour map and experimenting with putting one of her walking routes on it. She might be very amenable to letting her B&B (actually a floor in an old palazzo) be used if she knew she might be getting something like that back from it.. Cheers Graham > Cheers > > Andy > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
