After the November floods, the map of Workington [1] in Cumbria was
updated very quickly to show the state of the bridges, and the
location of the temporary road bridge that was to be built. I've just
read on the BBC news site [2] that the temporary bridge is to open
today, at 10:30. Can a local pl
I think that was the one they 'officially opened' on the One Show yesterday
(BBC 1, on the iPlayer now) with a load of RiverDance girls - I kid you not
Tim
--- On Wed, 21/4/10, Russ Phillips wrote:
From: Russ Phillips
Subject: [Talk-GB] Workington Bridges
To: "OSM Talk-GB"
Date: Wednesda
The bridges look good, but the town is clearly lacking.
Now we have OS Street View, we could quickly respond to natural disasters by
improving the mappedness of the area.
Of course the argument still remains that it can mean the area never gets
well mapped. But think, if people see their local bri
Gregory wrote:
>Sent: 21 April 2010 11:38 AM
>To: Tim François
>Cc: OSM Talk-GB
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Workington Bridges
>
>The bridges look good, but the town is clearly lacking.
>Now we have OS Street View, we could quickly respond to natural disasters
>by improving the mappedness of the area.
>We had a discussion about this point during the Kidderminster mapping
party
>on Saturday. Our decision (relating to the Black Country in our case) was
>that we would use OS OpenData StreetView, especially in partly mapped
areas,
>but we would record some info on the wiki for each area covered so
This may be tantamount to hijacking a perfectly good forum post, and
for that I apologise, but how's this for an idea:
Form a mapping taskforce -- a group of dedicated seasoned mapping
party attendants. When an area is put forward for requiring imediate
attention (workington being a suitable examp
"Andy Mabbett" writes:
> On Tue, April 20, 2010 09:52, Ed Loach wrote:
>
>> I think in some places there are relations for both admin boundary
>> and ceremonial county, if that is the same as traditional.
> Is there an easy way (a wiki page, perhaps; or some kind of category view)
> to see links
This is kind of the idea I had, but I don't think anyone really has the
ability to be on task force. Often my only barrier would be travel(public
transport) and accommodation costs. For others there are work and family
commitments.
I think I might do some Workington OS tracing around the bridges/r
I've been playing with the OS OpenData Locator dataset, which contains
the XY coordinates for the ends & midpoint of many of the UK's roads.
This gazetteer appears to complement the StreetView data - some (short)
streets whose names are absent from StreetView are included in OS
Locator. Convers
On Wednesday 21 April 2010, David Dixon wrote:
> I've been playing with the OS OpenData Locator dataset, which contains
> the XY coordinates for the ends & midpoint of many of the UK's roads.
> This gazetteer appears to complement the StreetView data - some (short)
> streets whose names are abse
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