What happened to Oxford University using OpenStreetMap? They still have it live (without attribution): http://www.ox.ac.uk/applications/dynamic/map.rm?location=Trinity%20College&id=486&postcode=OX2+6UD But the college pages link to a google maps implementation: http://www.ox.ac.uk/colleges/colleges_and_halls_az/trinity.html
2009/1/16 Andrew Chadwick (email lists) <[email protected]> > I'm giving a talk for Cyclox members telling them about OpenStreetMap on > the coming Thursday, handing out pencil-and-paper mapping packs with > SAEs. Given that we already have all of the streets, pretty much, we can > hopefully get the Cyclox people to tell us about all the cheats, > shortcuts and useful infrastructure that they know and we don't (yet). > > http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1495928/ > West Oxford Community Centre. Quite near the station. > > It'll also be a social gathering, in the same slot as and replacing a > regular Cyclox meetup, with pizza and pub afterwards. Free nibbles up > front if you get there early. > > > -- blurb -- > > Creating a living map for Oxford's cyclists using OpenStreetMap. > > Introductory presentation to OpenStreetMap > West Oxford Community Centre, the Marytown Room > 22nd January 2009, arrive 6PM for 7 start > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.752591&mlon=-1.274948&zoom=16 > Refreshments provided beforehand, 30 to 45 mins presentation and Q&A, > stay for pizza and an informal chat afterwards. > > Cyclox, the University of Oxford, and OpenStreetMap will be working > together over the next few months to create a detailed map of the city > that meets the needs of cyclists using a grass-roots approach. The map > will be made by cyclists, for cyclists, and as part of the process we > need to gather information from as wide a spectrum of Oxford cyclists as > possible. We need a good number of volunteers interested in performing > an active on-street survey to help us do this, so if you're interested, > please come along to the meeting! > > * Cyclox is the cycling campaign group for Oxford. > * OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street > maps to anyone who wants them. > > -- > Andrew Chadwick > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Gregory [email protected] http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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