Thanks for the info below. It looks like some debconf folks are going geocaching today but hopefully we can do some more next week as well.
Regards, Daniel On 05/06/07, Shaun McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 5 Jun 2007, at 13:51, Daniel Glassey wrote: > > > Hi, > > I can't remember who has been doing Edinburgh but there is a talk > > about OSM at Debconf[1], the Debian conference. afair it is on 18th > > June. Sometime during the week following that it would be great if a > > group of us could help with mapping. > > Looking at the calendar on the wiki there is Chris Fleming who is > going to talk to the Edinburgh Linux Users Group on June 7th. Your > event doesn't appear to be in the calendar. [0] > > I'm currently in Sighthill in the west of the city. [1] Going by > JOSM, I'm currently one of the main mappers. I should have time and > space here, if you need wifi/power/shelter. > > Currently there is no real strategy in Edinburgh as far as I'm aware. > The wiki page is very out of date. [2] > > > > > For the folks there in Edinburgh what is the best thing we can help > > with - most people will be on foot and public transport? And will you > > be able to get along and help? > > There are a lot of areas that have segment, but no ways. I have been > going through many of them and turning them into ways so that they > show up on the map. However I have not been naming them. It would be > a good thing to get them named, and this would be able to be done by > those who don't have GPSs. The areas that I know of that need > wayified, names added or more work to tidy them up are primarily: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? > lat=55.924773895703304&lon=-3.2984263206919593&zoom=16 > http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? > lat=55.933116488584076&lon=-3.307052303015519&zoom=15 > http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? > lat=55.95445765446907&lon=-3.301902462822349&zoom=14 > http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? > lat=55.96082408005075&lon=-3.2016093250603617&zoom=15 > http://www.informationfreeway.org/? > lat=55.981773200814416&lon=-3.2022135474480926&zoom=14&layers=B000T00 > > Search for name FIXME and use the maplint layer on the > informationfreeway are my recommendations for finding some areas that > need some TLC. The very city centre seems to be well covered. > > http://www.informationfreeway.org/? > lat=55.981773200814416&lon=-3.2022135474480926&zoom=14&layers=B000T00 > has an issue with the docks, that I'm not sure how to fix. > > The main public transport company in the Edinburgh area is Lothian > Buses [3]. They have a flash route map which is useful, and fairly > cheap day tickets. [4] > > Shaun > [....] > > [0]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Template:Calendar > [1]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html? > lat=55.919603952774914&lon=-3.28480070184753&zoom=15 > [2]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Edinburgh > [3]: http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/ > [4]: http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/routemap.shtml and http:// > www.lothianbuses.co.uk/tickets.shtml > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
