[Talk-GB] Stratford-upon-Avon mapping party 2? Anyone fancy going flying?
A mapping party was held in Stratford-upon-avon in September 2008[1] and most of the streets and many of the amenities are now mapped but there is still a lot more that can still be done to improve the map. Stratford is now the location for the big AGI GIS conference (23-24 Sept) which will bring together some 600 geographic information professionals.[2] There will be talks by the OS, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo etc as well as a strong 'Geoweb' stream hosted by Chris Osborne - ITO World and neogreography talks by Andrew Turner (Fortius), Andy Alan (CloudMade), John McKerrell (MapMe.at), myself and others.[3] We (ITO) started planning a conference-based mapping party on the afternoon of the first day for delegates arriving early. 1) We will recruit people attending the conference who get there early to take a sheet of walking paper and go and note down all the amenities in an area from which we will enter into OSM during the conference. 2) We will hire a few bicycles locally and then with we or people we recruit who arrive early will go and do a GPS survey of some areas that are short of roads. 3) I hope we can get the NaPTAN import for Warwickshire completed before then so we can review the town at the same time. Any reasons not to? 4) We can add bus routes by visiting to the bus station and hopefully finding a few helpful bus drivers to draw out the routes for us on walking papers. 5) And we intend to hire a plane to take aerial photos. Yup, I have checked with a company that offers 'Scenic Pleasure Flights from Wellesbourne Airfield, near Stratford upon Avon' [4] this morning and they sound very good indeed. We have established that It would cost £230 for a one hour 'aerial photography' flight (the pilot can fly at about 1500ft to 3500ft on an agreed path and can bank the plane to allow a good view to be gained from an open side window). 6) Finally of course we will eat a cake which will be provided! So... the flight. I was then speaking to Peter Stoner of National Traveline about a number of issues and mentioned this little plan of ours and that ITO was prepared to pay half the costs for the trip and he immediately offered to provide the other half which was very good of him. It is clear that Traveline are our firm friends now and will help us along where they can. So.. we have a plan and we have a plane and a pilot and it is paid for but we still need a photographer with a reasonable camera who is confident about using it can be available in the area when the weather is good. The photographer needs to be available on 3 dates between now and the 22nd Sept to have a reasonable chance of good weather on at least one of those days. Should we offer this as a little way of saying thank you to someone who has done a lot of work for OSM to date? If so, the who??? Suggestions please. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon/Mapping_Party [2] http://www.agi.org.uk/bfora/systems/xmlviewer/default.asp?arg=DS_AGI_ABOUTART_73/_page.xsl/94 [3] http://www.agi.org.uk/SITE/UPLOAD/DOCUMENT/Events/AGI2009/AGI09Programme.pdf [4] http://www.avonaircentre.com/index.html ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] Healthware & OSM-Atlas
Hi, I've been working on a couple of OSM-Related things, on-and-off, for a while, and I'm happy to announce that I've just released version 1.0 of both. Healthware [1] is a web site that uses the API & XAPI to find pharmacies (and, later, will also find hospitals). It's designed to run on any size screen, from the tiny little screen of my phone, to a full-sized monitor. Where the opening_hours tag [2] has been added, it can work out whether a pharmacy is currently open or not. Source code is released under an MIT licence [3]. Secondly, OSM-Atlas [4] is a PHP command-line script that uses a .osm file to create an atlas. It creates a PDF file, with front & back covers, overview map, detailed map pages, and index pages. This is also released under an MIT Licence [5]. Russ [1] http://www.mappage.org/hw/ [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours [3] http://www.mappage.org/hw/healthware.tar.gz [4] http://www.mappage.org/atlas/ [5] http://www.mappage.org/atlas/osm-atlas.tar.gz ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Chester Zoo: feedback requested
Loach: > Looks good. From a view of pedestrian routing, are all entries and exits > past the building labelled main entrance? Could the path perhaps be extended > to the parking aisle to make clear that it is the way in, maybe? Perhaps > with barrier=gate or similar if appropriate on the node where you pay? (I’ve > not checked to see whether such is there already to be honest) > I've now added http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/40125672, is that what you meant? (not sure if this path should extend through the building or not - it's actually more of a covered turnstile. You also reminded me that there's a separate pedestrian entrance here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/480729959 Bob Kerr wrote: > I have added service=parking_aisle to the car park, I thought you may be > interested to see that. I have not changed anything else. > Thanks, didn't know about this tag! > You mentioned geometry, I would suggest you look at JOSM. there is a tool > that looks like a set square that helps keep areas at right angles. > Ah, I can't cope with JOSM - wish there was a way of doing this in Potlatch (which does have a button for drawing neat circles). > You may like also to play around with > > landuse=forrest > landuse=grass > natural=wetland > natural=scrub > amenity=toilets > amenity=shelter > Good ideas, thanks. > It looks really good, I always think that mapping areas like this in detail > gives the map much more life. I'm sure the zoo will be very pleased. > I hope so too! I might customise the map slightly by adding animal icons (if I can find a nice set of pictograms). I've added animal=* tags, but I suspect it's a bit much to ask for support for these in Mapnik at the moment... I've also just experimented by adding barrier=fence to the outer boundary (I guess this should really be added to the two separate halves of the zoo instead), so I'm looking forward to seeing how that renders... Frankie -- Frankie Roberto Experience Designer, Rattle 0114 2706977 http://www.rattlecentral.com ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
