Seriously, super, awesome cool. On 23 Dec 2008, at 09:37, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
> It is with great pleasure, and not just a little excitement, that I > can > announce that the mappers in Birmingham having set the task of > completing > the whole of the city by Christmas have achieved just that. > > "http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.4708&lon=-1.8972&zoom=12&layers=0B00FT > F" > > Birmingham and the area inside the major motorways which has been > mapped, > including Solihull and Sutton Coldfield, has a population of > approximately > 1.25 million. The achievement is somewhat similar to that of Hamburg, > announced a few weeks ago. The major difference is that Birmingham > does not > have any Yahoo! aerial imagery, thus the whole of Birmingham has > been mapped > by GPS and many hours of cycling, walking and driving by the major > contributors. > > About 100 mappers have been involved in completing the whole work, > although > the vast majority has been contributed by just a handful of OSMers. > The list > of the major contributors can be found on the mappa mercia wiki page. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mappa_Mercia > > I'd like to say a specific thank you to Brian Prangle (brianboru) and > Christoph Böhme (Xoff) who joined me over the last weeks to complete > the > Christmas target, they weren't the only ones, but without their > efforts we > would never have made it! > > As a group (the OSM Midlands User Group (MUG)) we are planning how to > promote the Birmingham map and will be meeting at our monthly social > to > discuss ideas on January 15th. We have jointly lots of interesting > ideas to > explore, some of which are on the wiki. After the 15th Jan we plan > to put > out a wider media release. > > Of course the mapping work doesn't end here. We still have plenty of > POI, > verification and address data to add in Birmingham plus there is > still much > work to be done in the coming year to complete the "Black Country", > Walsall > and the area to the west of the M5. > > Cheers and Happy Christmas > > Andy (blackadder) > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
