Well, it's that time of year again I guess where our thoughts turn thoroughly to the upcoming spring and summer, and I'd like to suggest a couple of UK outdoors-orientated mapping parties.
1. The Southwest Surrey Mapping Party, or "Fill The Gap III" (following on from Richmond and East Hants). At the moment there exists a gap of about 10 miles between the SW London/Guildford well-mapped area and the Haslemere-Petersfield-Midhurst triangle (the original home of Freemap). I'd like to propose a mapping party to close that gap, pencilling in the weekend of April 5/6 (two weeks after Easter). Like the East Hants party this will be countryside orientated (foot/off-road bike/horse???), the aim is to try and complete as much of the footpath network along the Haslemere/Hindhead-Guildford axis as possible, but there will be scope for car drivers (e.g. Godalming, complete Haslemere). If this gap is filled we will have a swathe of good mapping stretching from London all the way down to the New Forest, almost 100 miles. 2. A mountain-area mapping party, following up to the Lake District party last July, I'd like to suggest a couple of options: * either return to the Lake District and cover the west side (Wasdale/Scafell Pike/Great Gable/Buttermere, etc - currently not mapped at all), * central Snowdonia. Some Snowdon paths are mapped but there's still plenty of gaps. Please let me know any preference (or other suggestions). This will be sometime between June 15-July 15, I want to avoid the school holidays as the Lake District was surprisingly (and pleasantly) quiet last year in early July so this seems to be a good time to go. More details when I know about work commitments. Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk