Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-gb-thenorth] Mapping the unloved and unwashed
2009/2/10 Brian Quinion : >> Should we investigate buying aerial photography for some of these un-loved >> places which would allow us the capture the base road structure and >> land-usage prior to any actual visit and speed things up a lot? > Please, please NO! > > Mapping an area after it has been traced is: > > a) almost as much work as without the tracing (you still have to go > down each road to look for missed features) > b) very unsatisfying because it doesn't look like you have achieved anything Just wanted to follow up on this point. I've been mapping bits around Warrington recently using Yahoo imagery, as there is no coverage around areas I know, and there are big rural areas round there with little mapped. Do others feel the same as Brian? I could understand why. For now I'm leaving roads alone and adding fields, woodland, streams etc via Yahoo imagery as these are harder to map by GPS survey. cheers, LT ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] CLoudMade's launch tomorrow
Yes - all will be filmed, uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo and posted on the blog. - http://blog.cloudmade.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Thomas Wood wrote: > I'm unfortunately unable to attend, would have liked to see what you > guys have been getting up to :) , any chance of some of the demos > being filmed? > > 2009/2/11 SteveC : > > Come along! > > > >http://developer.cloudmade.com/events/email/ldn > > > > > http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/02/09/introducing-the-cloudmade-developer-zone/ > > > > We'll be bring the launch to London this Thursday February 12th. There > > will be keynotes, live demonstrations from CloudMade partners that > > will include social networking, navigation, real estate, personal > > tracking, fleet tracking applications and more. There are only a few > > places left, so please sign-up now to avoid disappointment. > > > > The CloudMade Developer Zone has all the resources developers need to > > get started building awesome location based applications > > > > > > > > Best > > > > Steve > > > > > > ___ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Thomas Wood > (Edgemaster) > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Nick Black n...@cloudmade.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] CLoudMade's launch tomorrow
I'm unfortunately unable to attend, would have liked to see what you guys have been getting up to :) , any chance of some of the demos being filmed? 2009/2/11 SteveC : > Come along! > >http://developer.cloudmade.com/events/email/ldn > > > http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/02/09/introducing-the-cloudmade-developer-zone/ > > We'll be bring the launch to London this Thursday February 12th. There > will be keynotes, live demonstrations from CloudMade partners that > will include social networking, navigation, real estate, personal > tracking, fleet tracking applications and more. There are only a few > places left, so please sign-up now to avoid disappointment. > > The CloudMade Developer Zone has all the resources developers need to > get started building awesome location based applications > > > > Best > > Steve > > > ___ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] London's Shortest Street
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 22:35 +, Someoneelse wrote: > ...and York probably wins the prize for the shortest street with the > silliest name: > > http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4437062 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma_Gate A good bit less interesting, but the shortest road in Glasgow is Clayslaps Road. http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/25598647 -- Bruce Cowan ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] CLoudMade's launch tomorrow
Come along! http://developer.cloudmade.com/events/email/ldn http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/02/09/introducing-the-cloudmade-developer-zone/ We’ll be bring the launch to London this Thursday February 12th. There will be keynotes, live demonstrations from CloudMade partners that will include social networking, navigation, real estate, personal tracking, fleet tracking applications and more. There are only a few places left, so please sign-up now to avoid disappointment. The CloudMade Developer Zone has all the resources developers need to get started building awesome location based applications Best Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed
On 10 Feb 2009, at 17:12, Brian Quinion wrote: > Has anyone made any plans for mapping parties for any of the unloved > north yet? After cycling up and down the hilly climbs of Sheffield I > quite fancy mapping somewhere flat like Lincolnshire :-) Add all the addressing in Sheffield? Best Steve ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Batman Close
Christopher Woods wrote: > > Huh? Huh?! :D How cool would it be to live on Batman Close. (Please don't > say they're all trap streets ¬_¬ ) Well, there's a Bateman Street near here that the locals seem to like modifying. Should I tag it with a loc_name? -- Andrew Chadwick ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Batman Close
If you are into these things - how about this http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/suzume/64487128/ http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.32461&lon=-3.75693&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF the smallest 'street' I have found in Edinburgh is called Crooked Dykes... http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesks/2488443461/ http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.943953&lon=-3.181466&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF james On 11 Feb 2009, at 12:00, talk-gb-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: To be honest, I've always fancied living on either Australia Road, Commonwealth Avenue, India Way, Canada Way or - the coup de gras - Batman Close. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Batman+Close,+White+Cit y+Estate,+Hammersmith,+London+W12,+United +Kingdom&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&ss pn=16.868876,46.40625&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FZn7EQMd6Hz8_w&split=0&z=16 Huh? Huh?! :D How cool would it be to live on Batman Close. (Please don't say they're all trap streets ?_? ) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed
> Lincolnshire is still on my list for 2009 Not sure whether it is of any use, but I did a couple of hours mapping in Lincoln fairly recently, and had expected to have much longer. So in advance I'd made myself a bit of a cake diagram, and in case it was of use to anyone else added it to the Lincoln wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lincoln Lincoln is fairly small, and I suspect a dozen mappers could probably finish mapping all the roads in a day. Adding lots of POIs as they go may slow that up a little. The bit I did by car was hampered by the one way system, where on bike you could get off and push to take short cuts (or if you're one of those cyclists who doesn't deserve their wheels you could even cycle the wrong way down a one way street). Ed ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
